FEC Appoints Two to Election Advisory Panel

For Immediate Release:                                                                                             Contact:   Ron Harris
February 02, 2001                                                                                                                          Sharon Snyder
                                                                                                                                                         Ian Stirton
                                                                                                                                                         Kelly Huff


 


FEC APPOINTS TWO TO ELECTION ADVISORY PANEL


 


WASHINGTON – Wyoming’s Secretary of State and a Tennessee
county elections administrator are the two newest appointees to the 2001 Advisory Panel of
the Office of Election Administration (OEA).

 



            The OEA,
formerly known as the National Clearinghouse on Election Administration, is an entity of
the Federal Election Commission (FEC).  The
Advisory Panel, established in 1976, is composed of state and local election officials
from throughout the nation, nominated to the Panel by the Director of the OEA and
appointed by the six Commissioners of the FEC.  The
Panel advises the OEA and the Commission on methods of allocation of resources that will
best serve the needs of election officials.

 



            Appointed
February 1 to the Panel are Joseph B. Meyer, Wyoming Secretary of State, and Carolyn
Jackson, Administrator of Elections, Hamilton County, Tennessee.

 



            Joseph Meyer is
a former Wyoming Attorney General, and prior to his election as Wyoming’s 19th
Secretary of State was Special Assistant to the University of Wyoming’s President for
Governmental Relations.

 



            Carolyn Jackson
directs a staff of 12 in the Chattanooga offices of the Hamilton County Election
Commission.  Her office is responsible for the
planning, conducting, and administration of all municipal, county, state and federal
elections held in the county.

 



            Meyer and
Jackson replace Advisory Panel members Mike Cooney, former Montana Secretary of State, and
Jane Carroll, who retired as Supervisor of Elections in Broward County, Florida.

 



            In addition to
the aforementioned, other Panel members are:

 



            Fran Ulmer,
Lieutenant Governor, Alaska; Gilberto Hoyos, Pinal County Elections Director, Arizona;
Ernest R. Hawkins, Sacramento County Registrar of Voters, California;  Donetta Davidson, Secretary of State, Colorado;  Anne Phillips, Hall County Supervisor of
Elections, Georgia; Sandy Steinbach, Director of Elections, Iowa; Ronald Michaelson,
Executive Director, State Board of Elections, Illinois.

 



            Ron Thornburgh,
Secretary of State, Kansas; Candice Miller, Secretary of State, Michigan; Joseph Mansky,
Elections Division state government, Minnesota; Lucinda Burnette, Supervisor of Elections,
North Carolina; Thomas Wilkey, Executive Director, State Board of Elections, New York; J.
Kenneth Blackwell, Secretary of State, Ohio.

 



            Lance D. Ward,
Secretary, State Election Board, Oklahoma;  Tony
Sirvello III, Harris County Supervisor of Elections, Texas; Charlotte Cleary, Arlington
County Registrar of Voters, Virginia; Gary McIntosh, Election Director, Washington.

 



            The Advisory
Panel meets annually.  Its 2001 meeting is
tentatively scheduled for April in New York state.

 


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