Stardust William David Blumenfeld Doherty (né Will Doherty)
is the former executive director of the
Verified Voting Foundation and
VerifiedVoting.org and was the originator of the
Election Incident Reporting System,
used to detect over 40,000 problems with the
2004 U.S. Presidential Election and to ensure that all legally qualified voters would have the opportunity to vote.
A Los Angeles Times article by Ralph Vartabedian reported on November 4, 2004: "'We saw systematic problems throughout the U.S.,' said Will Doherty, executive director of VerifiedVoting.org, a group that is calling for every electronic voting machine to produce a paper trail that can be audited."
Doherty appeared on the Brian Lehrer Show of December 8, 2004 with the following description: "Will Doherty, Executive Director of Verified Voting Foundation, says there were widespread problems with electronic voting, but stops short of claiming fraud."
Doherty previously held position as Online Activist and Media Relations Director of the
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
He founded the
Online Policy Group (OPG), a free speech Internet Service Provider (ISP) that initiated a lawsuit against election systems manufacturer
Diebold Systems, Inc., to prevent the company's attempt to stifle discussion of an email archive demonstrating flaws with Diebold election equipment and potential problems with use of uncertified portions of Diebold election machines in actual elections.
Doherty and interns from the Online Policy Group and the Electronic Frontier Foundation conducted a study on Internet blocking (or filtering) technology
that was later used in an amicus curiae brief
before the U.S. Supreme Court in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the
Children's Internet Protection Act
The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is one of a number of bills that the United States Congress proposed to limit children's exposure to pornography and explicit content online.
Background
Both of Congress's earlier attempts at restri ...
.
Doherty also served as Director of Online Community Development at the
Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
GLAAD (), an acronym of Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, is an American non-governmental media monitoring organization originally founded as a protest against defamatory coverage of gay and lesbian demographics and their portrayals ...
(GLAAD). Doherty holds an M.B.A. from
Golden Gate University
Golden Gate University (GGU or Golden Gate) is a private university in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1901, GGU specializes in educating professionals through its schools of law, business, taxation, and accounting. The university offers s ...
and a B.S. in Computer Science and Writing from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...
(MIT).
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