Rebecca Mercuri

[2] She was a fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

[4] In 1981, Mercuri founded the computer security and forensics consulting company Notable Software, where she continues to work.

[6] In 2002, Mercuri was asked to inspect the electronic voting machines that malfunctioned in the 2002 Florida gubernatorial election.

[7] Mercuri was the author of a column called "Security Watch", which was published in the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery.

In her method, a person casts their votes on a machine which then outputs them on an enclosed paper record for verification.