Professor Doug Chapin

Professor Doug Chapin is the Director of the Election Reform Information Project, the Program for Excellence in Election Administration, and the Election Academy at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He came to the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota after 10 years at The Pew Charitable Trusts where he served as Director of Election Initiatives for the Pew Center on the States.  Under his leadership, Pew's elections team successfully lobbied for enactment of military and overseas voting reform in Congress and state legislatures; enlisted dozens of states and technology partners like Google, Microsoft, and Facebook to provide official voting information online and via mobile technology; and worked with election officials, academics, and technical experts to design and implement efforts to upgrade the nation's voter registration systems.  Prior to serving at Pew, Professor Chapin was an attorney in private practice specializing in election and ethics law.  He served as elections counsel to the Democrats on the U.S. Senate Rules Committee from 1997 to 2000, where he focused on federal election legislation and participated in the review of the disputed 1996 Senate election in Louisiana.