About Us
The Open Voting Consortium has broad national and international participation. In addition, the following are our Directors so far.
Alan Dechert, President and CEO
Alan Dechert has been a software test engineer and application developer for the past 15 years. In 2001, with Dr. Henry Brady of UC Berkeley, he co-authored a voting modernization proposal for California. This proposal was designed as an in-depth study of the voting system, including development of reference open source voting software. In 2003, along with Dr. Douglas W. Jones (Univ of Iowa) and Dr. Arthur Keller (UC Santa Cruz), he founded the Open Voting Consortium (OVC). He currently serves as President and CEO of the OVC.
Arthur Keller, Vice President and COO/CFO
Arthur Keller is a computer science professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Dr. Keller has taught computer science at Brooklyn College (CUNY), University of Texas (Austin), Helsinki University, University Blas Pascal (Cordoba, Argentina), as well as Stanford University. He is an expert in database systems and computer security. He is a successful entrepreneur having been involved with a number of startups. He also has experience with national media: For example, he was recently on the Lehrer News Hour talking about wireless security issues. Professor Keller serves as the OVC's Vice President, Chief of Operations and Chief Financial Officer.
Doug Jones, Vice President and CTO
Douglas W. Jones has been a Professor of computer science at the University of Iowa since 1980. He has gained considerable expertise in the area of voting technology having served on the Iowa Board of Examiners for Voting Machines and Electronic Voting Systems since 1994. He chaired the board from Fall 1999 to early 2003. This board, appointed by the Secretary of State, must examine and approve all voting machines before they can be offered for sale to county governments. His expertise in this area has put him in great demand since the election mess in 2000 - frequently quoted in the national media. Professor Jones serves as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for the Open Voting Consortium.
Amit Sahai is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He has a broad range of interests throughout theoretical computer science -- strongly interested in fundamental problems relating to security, as well as those relating to complexity theory, algorithms, learning theory, and the theory of error-correcting codes. Dr. Sahai has served on program committees for conferences in Europe as well as North America involving computer security issues. He is leading the security assessment group for the Open Voting Consortium.
Besides being a law professor (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and a member of the District of Columbia Bar with expertise in intellectual property law, Peter Maggs is a pioneer in computer interfaces for vision-impaired users. In the early 80s, he worked on speech interfaces for PCs and Apple Computers. He also oversaw the development of text to Braille software. He is helping the OVC to navigate the potential intellectual property minefields related to our open voting system development and deployment.
Karl Auerbach is Chief Technology Officer at InterWorking Labs (www.iwl.com). He was a senior researcher in the Advanced Internet Architecture group at Cisco Systems. Auerbach also founded two startups (Epilogue Technology and Empirical Tools) and was closely involved with several others. Auerbach has been working on Internet technology since the early 1970's. He has been a long-time member of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). In addition to his technical work, Auerbach has been an attorney in California since 1978. He is a member of the Intellectual Property Section of he California State Bar. He is the former North American publicly elected member of the Board of Directors of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Auerbach has been named as a Yuen Fellow of Law and Technology at the California Institute of Technology and Loyola of Los Angeles Law School. He has also received the Norbert Wiener Award from the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR).
OVC FOUNDING MEMBERS
Jeff Almeida
Ed Cherlin
Troy Davis
Lori Dechert
Kathy Dopp
Lori Flynn, Ph.D.
Chris Gates
Matteo Giacomazzi
Rick
Gideon
Jean-Paul Gignac, Developer
Joseph Lorenzo Hall
Cory
Hamma
Teresa Hommel
Kurt
Hyde
Jan
Kärrman, Developer
Bob Kibrick
Eron Lloyd, Developer
Fred McLain,
Development Lead for prototype
David
Mertz, Ph.D., Principal Member, Architectural Advisor, Author
Lou Montulli
Anand Pillai,
Developer
Laird Popkin, Web Master, Developer
Eric A. Smith
Charlie Stauss, Ph.D., Los Alamos Computer
Scientist
Ellen Theisen
Arnold
B. Urken, Ph.D.
OVC CURRENT SUPPORTING MEMBERS
(Partial List; Opt-Out; Ordered by Date of Subscription, most recent last)Astar Computer Consulting
Jesse Keller
James T Helminski
Mark & Ruth
Hull-Richter
Vitas Povilaitis
Alan Batie
David May
Reginald
Charney
Edmund Kennedy
Donald Wells
Graham Lane
Andrew
Bloch
Kelli Farrell
Giovanni Della-Libera
Keith Copenhagen
Brent
Darley
Anthony R Cinaglia
Robert Baruch
Steven Pucci
Robert S.
Brown
Wilson Bilkovich
Eric Fretheim
Tom McCarty
Steven
Feuerstein
OVC CONTRIBUTORS
(Significant contribution of time and/or money; Partial List; Opt-In)Adrianne Yu Wang
Dennis Paull
Matt Shomphe
Van Lindberg
Jack
Walther
Skip Montanaro
Chris Schaefer
Alex Burgel
Charles
Cleveland
Andrew Cleveland
Paul Kostick Jr.
Clay Lenhart
Gene
Mosher
Nathan L. Adams
Mason Miller
Bob Ramstad
Daniel Lifschitz
Kim Nguyen
Gayle Mertz
Liam Helmer
Mark Winegar, Ph.D.
Steve
Chessin, Ph.D.
William B. Cushman, Ph.D.
J. Brian Adams
Erik Hopp
James Acomb
Joel Harris
Harlan Brothers
John Payson
Mike Weil
Dale Lane
Bruce Perens
Amy Pearl
Richard A Stimson
Ken Restivo
Ken Pugh
Stuart K Johnston
Hedda Haning
Hubert Bray, Ph.D.
Jim March
Michael Hay
Patricia Gracian