{"id":147932,"date":"2026-03-25T11:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147932\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:32:10","slug":"lehigh-county-searching-for-new-elections-chief-as-primary-election-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147932\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh County searching for new elections chief as primary election approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s Note: This story first appeared on Armchair Lehigh Valley<\/a> and is being published on themorningcall.com<\/a> as part of a partnership with the website, which aims to give voters factual information in a nonpartisan way to help them make informed decisions at the polls. Armchair Lehigh Valley is run by Publisher Katherine Reinhard and editor Robert H. Orenstein, two former Morning Call employees. Learn more about Armchair Lehigh Valley and subscribe here<\/a>.Benyo leaves post as Lehigh County\u2019s clerk of elections, registrations<\/p>\n

Timothy Benyo, Lehigh County\u2019s chief clerk of elections and registrations, has left his position to work for the\u00a0Committee of Seventy,\u00a0a nonprofit, nonpartisan group that focuses on issues impacting voters.<\/p>\n

Benyo has become the group\u2019s senior adviser, election administration. His job includes working with election officials and policymakers, supporting poll worker recruitment and training initiatives, and advancing key election administration reforms.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m honored to be part of an organization with such a long history of promoting my beliefs on free, fair, safe, and secure elections,\u201d Benyo said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people who worked alongside me for the past 20 years have provided me with this opportunity as well as great success in Carbon and Lehigh counties. I\u2019m very excited to continue what was started at the county level and expand those successes throughout the Commonwealth at the Committee of Seventy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Benyo\u2019s departure leaves the county without a chief clerk less than two months before the May 19 primary election where there are contested races<\/a> in the 7th Congressional District, 16th and 18th state Senate districts, and the 22nd and 187th state House districts.<\/p>\n

The county has\u00a0posted the job\u00a0on its website, listing a string of duties, educational background requirements and a salary of $36 an hour or $74,880 a year.<\/p>\n

The office is being administered by Deputy Clerk Brianna Negron and interviews for the job will begin Wednesday, according to the county.<\/p>\n

\u201cResidents of the county should have full faith and confidence that we will have free, fair and thorough elections in Lehigh County as we work to replace Mr. Benyo,\u201d Lehigh County Executive Josh Siegel said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Siegel praised Benyo\u2019s time in Lehigh, saying his \u201csteady hand helped guide the county through historic changes in Pennsylvania\u2019s voting laws like no excuse mail-in voting and drop boxes to ensuring the integrity of our election\u2019s process through the COVID-19 pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Benyo was hired by the county in January 2010. He previously served in the Army as an intelligence officer. He has a bachelor\u2019s degree in computer science from Kaplan University and an associate\u2019s degree in computer networking from Allentown Business School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Editor\u2019s Note: This story first appeared on Armchair Lehigh Valley and is being published on themorningcall.com as part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,836,433,182,139,28,50,432],"class_list":["post-147932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-election","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-politics","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}