Bob Babbage

Bob Babbage (born July 8, 1951) is an American public leader, business and civic entrepreneur.

On the federal level Babbage lobbied for the passage of the PNTR trade modernization with China and the $10.1 billion feature for agriculture in the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004.

Babbage was first elected to public office in 1981 as Council Member At-Large to the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government.

As a member of the council from 1981 to 1987, Babbage was instrumental in developing Lexington's first-ever 911 emergency communications system.

As Secretary of State Babbage championed a "motor-voter law" that simplified the process for registering voters and maintaining registrations, was active in starting limited liability corporations for Kentucky business and conducted the nation's first online vote count in real time.

Babbage and the attorney general named a task force on vote fraud reform that proposed legislation that was successfully passed and implemented.

Following the election, he was named state chair of the Kentucky Democratic Party by Governor Paul E. Patton.

Babbage was the working chair in 2000 of the bi-partisan committee to pass a constitutional amendment for annual sessions of the Kentucky General Assembly.

After previously failing three times over Kentucky's history, the amendment to establish a short session of the legislature in odd-numbered years passed 52.33% to 47.67%.