Doug Chapin

Doug Chapin Civility and Voting Technology in Democracy - "Making Every Vote Count"

Doug Chapin is founding director of electionline.org, a project of the Pew Center on the States. Established by Pew after the November 2000 vote, the nonpartisan, non-advocacy electionline Web site has become the leading source for journalists, policymakers, election officials, academics, and concerned citizens to learn about, discuss, and debate election administration issues.

Mr. Chapin was most recently in private legal practice in Washington, D.C., after serving for three years as elections counsel to the minority of the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration.

He holds a law degree from Georgetown University and a master's in public administration from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

"There are two ways to live; one is as though nothing is a miracle.  The other is as if everything is."
-- Albert Einstein