Thad Hall is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Utah. His research is primarily in the area of election reform, with a special interest in the administration of elections. In 2001, Hall was a member of the professional staff of the National Commission on Federal Election Reform. He is currently the principal investigator for the Election Assistance Commission’s Vote Count and Recount Project. He has also received grants from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to write a book length manuscript examining the politics associated with electronic voting, which he is coauthoring with R. Michael Alvarez, and has worked as a consultant for the United States Department of Defense on the SERVE electronic registration and voting project.