REBECCA MERCURI has been researching electronic voting issues since 1989 and has observed elections as a scientist, poll-worker, and committeewoman in various U.S. States. Dr. Mercuri provided testimony to the 11th Circuit Court in the controversial Bush v. Gore case, and has advised the House Science Committee, Federal Election Commission and the U.K. Cabinet on election matters. Her informative webpage (www.notablesoftware.com/evote.html) on electronic voting has been quoted in the U.S. Congressional Record, and she continues to play a direct role in municipal, state, federal, and international legislative initiatives. Rebecca divides her time between Notable Software, Inc., the Princeton-area computer consulting firm that she founded in 1984, and a research fellowship at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. She authors the quarterly "Security Watch" column for the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), serves on the advisory boards of the Princeton professional chapters of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society, and is a member of the IEEE's working group on voting system standards.