Holly Jacobson

Holly Jacobson is Director and Co-founder of Voter Action. She has a background in media project management working with clients such as Microsoft, United Way and the City of Seattle. Ms. Jacobson has shaped the strategic direction of the organization, recruiting litigation teams to challenge the use of problematic voting systems that has led to major victories in New Mexico and Colorado and pending cases in Arizona, California, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin and Florida. Through Voter Action, Ms. Jacobson also launched the Watch the Vote program in 2006 which provided a national legal hotline for electronic voting concerns for the public and partner election monitoring organizations. Voter Action has recently co-released several reports on the disenfranchisement issues of electronic voting and election privatization. She currently resides in Seattle.