LEHIGH CO., Pa.- Lehigh County is looking for a new election’s leader ahead of the Pennsylvania primaries.
Tim Benyo, the county’s Chief Clerk of Elections and Registrations, has left his post to work for a non-partisan nonprofit group called the “Committee of Seventy.”
Courtesy of Committee of Seventy
Benyo posted the organization’s welcome announcement on his Facebook page.
“We’re excited to welcome Tim Benyo to the Committee of Seventy as Senior Advisor, Election Administration…he will help deepen Seventy’s work with election officials and policymakers across Pennsylvania, support poll worker recruitment and training, and advance key reforms that strengthen election administration across the Commonwealth,” the welcome announcement from Committee of Seventy reads.
His new job leaves Lehigh County without an election chief less than two months from the state primaries, which are May 19th.