Donetta Davidson
{{short description|American politician}}
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{{BLP sources|date=August 2010}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|office = Chairperson of the Election Assistance Commission
|president = Barack Obama
|term_start = February 2010
|term_end = December 12, 2011
|predecessor = Gineen Beach
|successor =
|president2 = George W. Bush
|term_start2 = January 3, 2007
|term_end2 = January 17, 2008
|predecessor2 = Paul DeGregorio
|successor2 = Rosemary Rodriguez
|office3 = Secretary of State of Colorado
|governor3 = Bill Owens
|term_start3 = July 21, 1999
|term_end3 = July 28, 2005
|predecessor3 = Victoria Buckley
|successor3 = Gigi Dennis
|birth_date = {{birth year and age|1943}}
|birth_place = Liberal, Kansas, U.S.
|death_date =
|death_place =
|party = Republican Party
}}
Donetta L. Davidson was a member of the United States Election Assistance Commission and served as Secretary of State of Colorado. She was elected Chair of the EAC for 2010.{{cite news|url=http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14656869|title=Voter registration forms now in 5 Asian languages|date=11 March 2010|work=San Diego Union-Tribune|accessdate=1 September 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.{{Cite web |title=News Release |url=https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/newsRoom/pressReleases/2015/PR20151229Honors.html |access-date=2024-07-05 |website=www.sos.state.co.us}} 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{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/01/uselections2004.usa8|title=Wary Colorado prepares for no confidence vote|date=1 November 2004|work=The Guardian|accessdate=1 September 2010 | location=London | first=Sarah | last=Left}} that resulted in nearly one in five names (19.4 percent) being deleted from the voting rolls.{{cite magazine|last=Kennedy|first=Robert F. Jr.|author2=Palast|author3=Greg|title=Block the Vote|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=Oct 30, 2008|volume=85|url=http://archive.rollingstone.com/Desktop?s=2008103085#/20081030/65|accessdate=2 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616222638/http://archive.rollingstone.com/Desktop?s=2008103085#/20081030/65|archive-date=16 June 2013|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|last=Roberts|first=Michael|title="Block the Vote" co-author and Rolling Stone contributor Greg Palast on Colorado's troubled voting system|url=http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2008/10/block_the_vote_coauthor_and_ro.php|work=Denver Westword Blogs|accessdate=2 November 2012}}
In 2005 Davidson was elected President of the National Association of Secretaries of State. She also served on the Election Assistance Commission's Technical Guidelines Committee and on the Federal Election Commission's Advisory Panel.
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20170222131355/https://www.eac.gov/about_the_eac/donetta_davidson.aspx EAC profile - Donetta Davidson] archived from [http://www.eac.gov/about_the_eac/donetta_davidson.aspx the original ]
- {{C-SPAN|87655}}
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Category:Secretaries of state of Colorado
Category:People from Liberal, Kansas