Doug Chapin
Doug Chapin is a nationally-recognized expert on election policy and administration with almost forty years of experience in the field.
He worked for ten years at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs, where he founded the nation’s first online undergraduate and graduate certificate program in Election Administration.
Doug spent over a decade leading The Pew Charitable Trusts’ elections team, where he successfully lobbied for enactment of military and overseas voting reform in Congress and state legislatures, linked state election offices and technology partners like Google to provide official voting information online; and worked with the elections community to design and implement efforts to upgrade the nation’s voter registration systems.
In 2001, Doug founded electionline.org, which is still the nation’s leading nonpartisan source for election policy news and information. He was a frequent speaker and commentator on election matters, including for the New York Times, Governing Magazine and National Public Radio.
He is an attorney who served as elections counsel to the Democrats on the U.S. Senate Rules Committee.
Doug holds a law degree from Georgetown University, a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School and a Bachelor’s degree in Politics and Russian Studies from Princeton University.
