Roll Call offers this report (paid subscription required). It includes this information: “Former EAC Chairman DeForest Soaries, one of the first four members of the Election Assistance Commission and its first chairman, resigned last month. The Republican appointee cited personal reasons for his departure but also criticized Congress and the administration for not taking enough interest in election reform and underfunding the agency. A successor to Soaries has not been named. The House GOP leadership is supposed to submit names to the president, who in turn nominates an appointee to be confirmed by the Senate.”