Phil Keisling

In July 2003, Aviel Rubin, an untenured Johns Hopkins computer-science professor, was asked to analyze some software source code purportedly used in the Accuvote TSx voting machine, manufactured by Diebold. The Ohio-based company is one of several major vendors of Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machines that almost 30 million voters, in almost 40 states, […]

With the average seventh-grader at least familiar with the term “pregnant chads,” election reform is no longer the province of secretaries of state or the occasional academic conference. The issues of how voters are qualified, and how ballots are cast and counted, have received far more public scrutiny in the past half-decade than they did […]