American politician

Donetta L. Davidson was a member of the United States Election *istance Commission and served as Secretary of State of Colorado. She was elected Chair of the EAC for 2010. She previously served as Chair in 2007 and Vice-Chair in 2008. Her term of service extended through December 12, 2011.

Career

Before joining the EAC, Davidson served as a local election official in Colorado and was the secretary of state of Colorado from 1999 until 2005. A Republican, she was first appointed to the office in 1999 by Governor Bill Owens and was subsequently elected to the office in her own right in 2000 and was re-elected to a full four-year term in 2002.

As Secretary of State she gained both praise and criticism for cleaning up Colorado's voter rolls, a controversial move that resulted in nearly one in five names (19.4 percent) being deleted from the voting rolls.

In 2005 Davidson was elected President of the National *ociation of Secretaries of State. She also served on the Election *istance Commission's Technical Guidelines Committee and on the Federal Election Commission's Advisory Panel.

References

External links

• EAC profile - Donetta Davidson archived from the original
• Appearances on C-SPAN