Dan McCrea, , President & CEO, Co-Founder, Florida Voters Foundation and Florida Voters Coalition

Dan has worked in election reform since 2003. He co-founded Florida Voters Coalition in 2007 and led it to outstanding accomplishment and national recognition almost immediately. He's testified at federal, state and county levels and is a frequent speaker on voting issues in the media.

In addition to other duties, Dan directs Program at FVF and FVC. Particular areas of focus include election audits, accessibility for persons with disabilities, electronic transmission of voting materials, UOCAVA voters, ethics, election administrative best practices, and improving collaboration between local, state and national election reformers and funders.

  
Dan initiated and was a Host Committee member of the Post Election Audit Summit held in Minneapolis in October 2007. Following the Summit, Dan convened the Joint Audit Working Group (JAWG Team) with Florida Supervisors of Elections and an Advisory Panel of technical experts that drafted model post-election audit legislation for Florida.

Dan is a co-editor of Principles and Best Practices for Post-Election Audits, a reference document on the conduct of post-election audits developed by a group of stakeholders, including election officials, public advocates, computer scientists, statisticians, political scientists and legislators.

Before co-founding Florida Voters, Dan was Florida Director of Voter Action, Government Relations Chair of Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition, a City Commissioner in the City of South Miami. Dan is a retired Florida general contractor with 35 years experience in for-profit business..

Pamela Anderson Haengel, Vice President & Co-Founder, Florida Voters Coalition and Florida Voters Foundation

Pam is also President of the Voting Integrity Alliance of Tampa Bay (VIA Tampa Bay).  Pam became interested in election integrity after watching the hanging chad debacle unfold here in Florida in 2000.

Pam was a member of the Joint Audit Working Group that drafted Florida SB2544 together with a team of experts that proposed risk-based, statistically significant post-election audits of paper ballots in Florida.

Pam was the State Coordinator for Voter Action in 2006 and worked with attorney Lowell Finley on the investigation of the 18,000 lost undervotes for non-partisan voters’ lawsuit in the Sarasota CD-13 race.

She founded VIA Tampa Bay in early 2006 and caused the first ever state “audit” of an unauditable all-DRE (touchscreen) election in Florida to take place after numerous problems occurred in Pinellas County.  VIA Tampa Bay logged hundreds of hours of election observations and pollworker trainings in Pinellas County in 2006 as part of a joint poll closing observation project with Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition, funded by The Ford Foundation.

Pam frequently appears in the local media and television news and has appeared on CNN concerning election integrity issues.

Pam is a third generation native Floridian, a business owner together with her husband, and has two young sons attending public school in Saint Petersburg.