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1. Name: Ted Selker, Ph.D.  
2. Title: Director, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Voting Technology Project

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

"Numerous pieces of evidence suggest that electronic voting machines outperformed all other methods used in November's [2004] election." ("Voting Technology: Election Auditing Is an End-to-End Procedure," Science, 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:
  • 2004-current - Director from MIT of Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project
  • Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT
  • 1992-1999 - Director, User Systems Ergonomics Research Lab, IBM Almaden Research Center
  • Helped create the IBM ThinkPad laptop computer
7. Education:
  • Ph.D., Computer Science, City University of New York, 1992
  • M.S., Computer/Information Science, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1981
  • B.S., Applied Mathematics, Brown University, 1979
8. Relevant Affiliations/Honors:
  • Member of several professional societies including American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Committee on Voting Standards, and Industrial Designers Society Association of America (IDSAA)
  • 2004 - Computer Science Policy Leader award for work on voting technology, Scientific American magazine
  • 1997 and 1999 - Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, IBM
  • 1996-1999 - IBM Fellow

9. Contact Info:
Phone: Privacy Requested Fax: (617) 258-6264
E-Mail: selker@media.mit.edu
Web Site: http://www.media.mit.edu/~selker
10. Other: Select publications include:
  • "Voting Technology: Election Auditing Is An End-To-End Procedure," Science, 2005
  • "Security Vulnerabilities and Problems with VVPT," Ted Selker and Jon Goler, a report of the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, April 2004
  • "Fixing the Vote - What Electronic Ballots Can Do For Democracy," Scientific American, 2004
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