{"id":148488,"date":"2026-03-25T22:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/148488\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T22:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:37:09","slug":"lehigh-county-chief-of-elections-resigns-less-than-two-months-before-primary-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/148488\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh County Chief of Elections resigns less than two months before primary | Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEHIGH CO., Pa.- Lehigh County is looking for a new election\u2019s leader ahead of the Pennsylvania primaries.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Benyo, the county&#8217;s Chief Clerk of Elections and Registrations, has left his post to work for a non-partisan nonprofit group called the &#8220;Committee of Seventy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"tim benyo.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69c43c54e5fc0.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Courtesy of Committee of Seventy<\/p>\n<p>Benyo posted the organization&#8217;s welcome announcement on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited to welcome Tim Benyo to the Committee of Seventy as Senior Advisor, Election Administration\u2026he will help deepen Seventy\u2019s 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,\u201d the welcome announcement from Committee of Seventy reads.<\/p>\n<p>His new job leaves Lehigh County without an election chief less than two months from the state primaries, which are May 19th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH CO., Pa.- Lehigh County is looking for a new election\u2019s leader ahead of the Pennsylvania primaries. Tim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,67727,67728,433,67729,28,4284,910,67726],"class_list":["post-148488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-committee-of-seventy","tag-elections-chief","tag-lehigh-county","tag-non-partisan","tag-pennsylvania","tag-primary","tag-resignation","tag-tim-benyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148488","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=148488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}