Donetta L. Davidson was a member of the United States Election Assistance Commission and served as Secretary of State of Colorado.
[2] A Republican, she was first appointed to the office in 1999 by Governor Bill Owens and was subsequently elected to the office in her own right in 2000 and was re-elected to a full four-year term in 2002.
As Secretary of State she gained both praise and criticism for cleaning up Colorado's voter rolls, a controversial move[3] that resulted in nearly one in five names (19.4 percent) being deleted from the voting rolls.
[4][5] In 2005 Davidson was elected President of the National Association of Secretaries of State.
She also served on the Election Assistance Commission's Technical Guidelines Committee and on the Federal Election Commission's Advisory Panel.