Board of Directors

Born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, Aileen is an election security advocate with multicultural views. She doesn’t take the right to vote for granted, as her father’s family was unconstitutionally incarcerated in Japanese American ‘camps’ during WWII. Her father later volunteered from camp to fight for the freedom of all Americans. Aileen’s passions are to teach students about this dark chapter in American history, and fighting for safe, secure, and transparent elections.

Aileen received her degrees in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from Wellesley College. She has worked in development and marketing at both Japanese and American computer companies, including Lotus Corporation and Compaq Computer Corporation.

In 2016, Aileen turned her focus to voting issues in Georgia, where she and her family have lived since 2007. She has testified at legislative hearings in Georgia, imploring lawmakers to listen to election integrity and cybersecurity experts.

Aileen currently serves as Assistant Secretary for the Coalition for Good Governance (CGG). She has spent over 200 hours observing Georgia elections, monitoring Logic & Accuracy testing, poll watching, tabulations, audits, and recounts. She has also testified as a fact witness in the 2024 Curling v Raffensperger trial for CGG. Aileen is thrilled to be working with Scrutineers, and dreams of a day when voters can have full confidence in the security and integrity of their vote.

Mike LaBonte has been an election integrity enthusiast since 2004, and an electrical engineer and software developer since receiving his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire in 1978. Currently living in Methuen, MA, He is now retired and enjoying having the time to take care of grandchildren and write software for Scrutineers.

Believing in the ideas that “we are all in this together” and democracy as the means by which we all become more sustainable, Mike has been passionate about both election integrity and the journalism needed to have an informed electorate. He served as Registrar of Voters in Haverhill, MA for 7 years and has since then continued as a poll worker wherever he lives. He has joined election integrity projects related to ranked choice voting while also serving as a citizen editor and outreach volunteer for the NewsTrust news literacy project, and board chair for Haverhill Matters, a local news cooperative effort.

Mike hopes Scrutineers succeeds in educating more people about the need to examine elections and how to do it in a circumspect, thorough manner. He believes that election oversight is key to making elections trustworthy, yet it is voluntary and under-covered in our civic education, making organizations like Scrutineers an important part of our democratic system.

Debra Kattler has been an active member of Scrutineers since its inception in 2020. She worked on a Florida public information request effort to collect election data, spearheaded the peer-to-peer fundraiser in 2023, and most recently, has worked on the Watch the Counties team. Debra is passionate about helping the American public get educated about how to participate in election processes to ensure that hard won votes are counted accurately and securely. 

Her education includes a Bachelor’s Degree from Brandeis University and a Master’s in Applied Social Research from Boston College.  Professionally she was in health industry information product and project management and held positions in corporate, non-profit, and government sectors.  After leaving her profession she embarked on entrepreneurship, opening a retail franchise called Plato’s Closet and running it for seven years before selling it. She then became a franchise broker, helping others to become business owners through franchising. She plans to bring her analytic and business skills to her board work with Scrutineers.  

Now retired and living on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, she devotes her time to Scrutineers and co-chairs an immigrant rights coalition in her home town. Debra loves to travel in a way that lets her meet the people who live there and see the sites that make that place special. After seeing her first total eclipse of the sun in 2017 and second in 2024, she’s become an occasional eclipse chaser.

Dr. Richard DeMillo holds the Charlotte B. and Roger C. Warren Chair in Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and was the Founding Chair of Georgia Tech’s School of Cybersecurity and Privacy, the first-of-a-kind at a top research university. He has held senior leadership positions in industry, government, and academia, and his academic research includes over 100 articles, books, and patents in the fields of computer science and cybersecurity.

Dr. DeMillo currently works in the area of election and voting system security. His work has been cited in dozens of court cases, including the 2019 Federal Court decision declaring paperless voting machines unconstitutional. He has served as a foreign election observer for the Carter Center and is a member of the State of Michigan Election Security Commission.

We’re honored that Dr. DeMillo brings his expertise in both election security and education with Scrutineers.

Dale Axelrod is an artist and organizer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He helped initiate the San Francisco Arts Commission Street Artists Program. Specifically, he worked to draft legislation, coordinate and qualify two ballot initiative drives. This effort resulted in artists being able to obtain licenses to sell their own creations on San Francisco public sidewalks and plazas.

He has extensive experience in designing posters, flyers, cartoons, and graphics for numerous political campaigns and committees. Dale’s been a GOTV precinct captain, fundraiser and political cartoonist for Democratic Party efforts in presidential campaigns: Kerry vs. Bush (2004), Gore vs. Bush (2000), Carter vs. Ford (1976), and McGovern vs. Nixon (1972).

His work on national issues includes writing and illustrating a comic book opposing Senate Bill 1437 (the precursor to the current “Patriot Act”) which was distributed to all members of Congress (1978) by NCARL (National Committee Against Repressive Legislation).

Dale is a union member has experience working at the polls on election day, and currently serves as:

• Sonoma County Democratic Party,  Chair — Outreach, Advocacy, and Legislation Committee;

• Co-Chair, National Voting Rights Task Force.

Yhey (pronounced “Yay”) leads online operations at Scrutineers, delivering strategic, tech-savvy support across email campaigns, event systems, community engagement, and fundraising initiatives.

She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business & Marketing, and over 15 years of online business management experience. She has provided remote operations support to mission-based entrepreneurs and organization leaders across all industries.

By coordinating seamlessly with leadership and empowering mission-essential workflows, she ensures every digital touchpoint – from automation to outreach – advances Scrutineers’ impact with clarity and care.

In addition to leading systems, tools and marketing initiatives that empower Scrutineer’s mission and vision, Yhey makes time to foster shelter animals by extending care where resources fall short and embodying her belief that small acts of love can spark meaningful change.

Emily Levy founded Scrutineers in January 2020 and was our Executive Director for our first five years, until her retirement on January 31, 2025.

Emily’s work on election security and transparency began in 2004, when she coordinated the most in-depth statistical study of the Ohio presidential vote, a project of Richard Hayes Phillips, whose book Witness to a Crime: A Citizens’ Audit of an American Election (Canterbury Press, 2008) detailed that project.

She went on to consult for the Election Protection Strike Force, the Election Transparency Coalition, and AUDIT USA before founding Scrutineers. A lifelong activist interested in multiple issues, Emily believes having fair, secure, accessible, and transparent elections is essential in preserving the rights of all and protecting our environment.