David Becker, Amy Cohen Move on from Pew Elections Project

Surprising news via email:

You may have heard that as of today, Amy Cohen and I have moved on from Pew and are beginning a new venture. We greatly appreciated our time at Pew, but as Pew informed our team that it was winding down its funding and work in elections, we sought a way to continue to build on the contributions we’ve been able to collaborate with you in making in this field. Whether it was building the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) and watching it expand to 21 members (so far!), or working to ensure that important voting information got to voters where they looked for it, or contributing to the comprehensive assessments of election performance, we all have achieved great things together. And the work is not done!

We mainly write to inform you all of our change in status, and to let you know that Amy and I, along with many others who plan to join us in the coming months, plan to continue to work in this field, encouraging efficient voter registration practices, supporting the widespread provision of election information, fostering effective data policies, and similar efforts to drive our mutual goals to improve American democracy. Look for more details on this in the coming weeks, but in the meantime, if you have any questions or thoughts, feel free to reach out to me and Amy.

More news on this when I have it.  And good luck to David and Amy, who have done marvelous work, especially in moving election administration away from the voting wars and toward greater professionalism and building upon consensus ideas.

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