Reply #25: He's very mysterious, not much to find but found this

[KewlKat]

1966-1980
According to a short biography in The Report of the National Symposium on Presidential Selection <4>, during this period, R. Doug Lewis:

"managed campaigns for Congress, U.S. Senate, governor, and the U.S. presidency"
"served as Executive Director of the Democratic Party in Kansas and Texas"
"worked as Regional Political Director in the DNC"
"served as Assistant to the President at the White House"
"managed political affairs for former Texas Governor John Connally"

However, this account appears to either misrepresent, or provide incomplete information about, key elements of Lewis's CV during this period:

1973-1974: Executive secretary of the Kansas Republican party, according to articles in The Great Bend Tribune. This appears to contradict the biographical details given above.<5><6><7>

1976: Executive director of the Texas Republican Party.<8> Again, this appears to completely contradict the biography given by the National Symposium on Presidential Selection.<9>

1976: Texas Chairman for President Gerald Ford's unsuccessful reelection campaign.<10><11>

1977: Finance director of the Texas Republican Party.<12>
After 1980

1980-1986: This period is noteworthy as Lewis appears to have disappeared entirely from public life. There is no mention of him in either the Nexis archive or the Google News archive.

1986 - June 1993: Lewis ran a Texas used-computers business called Micro Trade Mart, Inc. (according to e-voting activist Bev Harris) <13>

1994: Lewis was appointed to his position at the Election Center <14>.
Other Accomplishments Lewis, "the director of a nonprofit organization of election officials", served as one of three members—along with State Auditor Marion Higa and Penelope Bonsall of the Federal Election Commission—of the 1998 Election Oversight Committee for the recount of the general election in Hawaii. <15>

According to a bio for Lewis published by the Center for Governmental Studies, University of Virginia Center for Government Studies, in regards to the 2001 "Presidential Selection: A Guide to Reform":

"Among his other accomplishments are the development of the first Code of Ethics for voter registrars and elections administrators, the establishment of the Joint Elections Officials Liaison committee (JEOLC), the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED), the National Association of County Recorders, elections officials, and Clerks (NACRC), the International Association of Clerks, Recorders, Election Officials, and Treasurers (IACREOT), and the International Institute of Municipal Clerks (IIMC). Lewis also established the National Postal Task Force, the National Task Force on Voting Accessibility, and the National Elections Reform Task Force to study and propose solutions to the problems of the 2000 Presidential election.
"Lewis serves as the director of the Voting Systems Program for NASED, where he is responsible for managing the qualifications, testing, and approval of voting equipment in America through independent test authorities, and sits as member of the national Voting Systems Board to develop and update the Federal Voting Systems Standards, and serves as a member of California's Internet Voting Advisory Committee."
In October 2002, Lewis was executive director of the National Association of Secretaries of State's election center. <16>

On September 9, 2003, Lewis, identified as executive director of CERA (Certified Elections Registration Administrator), gave testimony for U.S. Senate Hearings On Disasters and Special Elections, Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Constitution. <17>

A bio attached to a 2005 article written by Lewis identifies him as "R. Doug Lewis, CERA".