CIRCLE WITH A DOT

For many years I was one of the faceless nerds who helped keep democracy afloat. I studied computer security and electronic voting in graduate school, worked with various groups such as the Carter Center for Democracy, regularly volunteered as an elections official, spoke at DEF CON and Black Hat on issues surrounding voting security, and more. After twenty years I started dialing back my involvement in 2022, and now I have a ringside seat living in the suburbs of DC to watch the world's pre-eminent democracy self-destruct.

This is not the future I thought I was building for us.