CHARLES STEWART, III, is Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at MIT. For the past three years he has been a member of the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, a multi-disciplinary effort to study the electoral system in the United States and to foster new research into the appropriate application of technology to voting. Within that project, he has focused on measuring voting machine performance and early voting measures. He received his BA in Political Science from Emory University and his PhD from Stanford; between these two degrees was a one-year stint at the Yale Divinity School. Beyond voting technologies, his research and teaching interests include legislative politics, electoral politics, and political history---topics about which he has published widely.