Kurt Hyde
The John Birch Society
Kurt Hyde is a member of the Board of Directors of The John Birch Society and an election-integrity expert. Hyde joined The John Birch Society in March 1965, while a sophomore in college. After earning a degree in physics in 1967, he entered the U.S. Air Force, where he served as a navigator, missile launch officer, and aircraft maintenance officer. He earned a master’s degree in Systems Management while on active duty and retired from the Air Force Reserve in 1990 as a lieutenant colonel.
In civilian life, Hyde worked as a computer professional, serving as a programmer, systems analyst, and database administrator, and occasionally teaching computer science. His work examining computerized voting systems led him to advocate for voter-verified paper trails as early as the mid-1980s. Since retiring in 2011, he has devoted himself to volunteer work with JBS and has written extensively for The New American on election integrity and related issues.
As an adjunct computer-science instructor in 1985 and 1986, Kurt led his students in a study of a computerized voting booth, and concluded that it needed a voter-verified paper trail in order to ensure that the computerized voting equipment did as voters instructed. He introduced that concept on August 14,1986, at a symposium in Boston. This is the earliest known formal presentation for a voter-verified paper trail in electronic voting equipment. Kurt has studied the history of elections in America, and completed a book entitled America’s Electoral Heritage.
Kurt Hyde was born in Texas in 1945 and raised in Connecticut.
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