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1. Name: Arthur M. Keller, Ph.D.  
2. Title: Co-founder and Secretary, Open Voting Consortium

3. Voting Machines
Position:		 Con to the question "Do electronic voting machines improve the voting process?"
4. Reasoning:

"Existing e-voting systems easily might be subverted by their vendors, or their faults used by others to cheat. To put our heads in the sand does not solve the problem, but permits it to fester, to our republic's peril. We must face the problem squarely, with the full array of intelligence, wisdom, and humility at our command." ("A Deeper Look: Rebutting Shamos on e-Voting," available online at his website, December 2005)

5. Credibility
Ranking:		  Experts
Election officials, people with post-graduate degrees in a computer science, J.D.s, Members of Congress, or elected officials with significant involvement in, or related to, electronic voting machine issues

6. Involvement:
  • Co-founder and Board Secretary, Open Voting Consortium
  • Visiting Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of California at Santa Cruz
  • Executive Committee, Voting System Performance Review
  • Member, Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Projects 1583 and 1622 to shape standards for evaluation of voting equipment and standards of electronic data exchange formats in election tabulation
7. Education:
  • Ph.D., Computer Science, Stanford University, 1985
  • M.S., Computer Science, Stanford University, 1979
  • B.S., Mathematics and Computer and Information Science, Brooklyn College (CUNY), 1977
8. Relevant Affiliations/Honors:
  • Listed in Marquis' Who's Who in America, Millenium Edition
  • Profiled in TechWeb, March 10, 2000
9. Contact Info:
Phone: (831) 459-1485 Fax: None listed
E-Mail: ark@soe.ucsc.edu
Web Site: www.cse.ucsc.edu/~ark
10. Other: Author of over 70 publications, including:
  • "Privacy Issues in an Electronic Voting Machine," A.M. Keller, D. Mertz, J.L. Hall, and A. Urken, chapter in Privacy and Technologies of Identity: A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation, Strandburg and Raicu, eds., 2006
  • "A Deeper Look: Rebutting Shamos on e-Voting," R.E. Crane, A.M. Keller, E. Cherlin, and D. Mertz, available on his website, 2005
  • "A PC-Based Open-Source Voting Machine with an Accessible Voter-Verifiable Paper Ballot," presented at the professional conference USENIX '05, April 2005
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