Biden-Harris Reelection Campaign Appoints Indian American Varoon Modak as Senior Counsel for Ballot Access
- Along with ballot access director Alana Mounce, he is tasked with overseeing the campaign efforts to cement the president's place on the ballot in all 57 states and territories and lead the campaign’s delegate selection process.
Indian American lawyer Varoon Modak has been appointed senior counsel for ballot access for the Biden-Harris 2024 reelection campaign. He joins the campaign after being counsel at Elias Law Group. Along with Alana Mounce, who will serve as ballot access director, Modak “will oversee the campaign efforts to cement President Biden’s place on the ballot in all 57 states and territories and lead the campaign’s delegate selection process,” according to a press release issued by the campaign. The team will
“expand on the infrastructure built by the 2020 campaign and the DNC, including the existing massive volunteer and supporter network to ensure the president’s place on the ballot.”
As a counsel in Elias Law Group’s Political Law practice, Modak advised candidates, elected officials, PACs, ballot measure committees, non-profit organizations, and other clients on federal, state, and local campaign finance, lobbying and ethics laws, as well as ballot access, recounts, voting rights, election administration, and other election law matters, according to the law office’s website.
Prior to that he was an associate at Perkins Coie LLP and a California-based political law firm. He also previously served as in-house counsel for a national political organization, and as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Arthur S. Weissbrodt of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California. Before earning his law degree, he worked for several political consulting and polling firms in California.
Modak is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and the University of California, Berkeley. Based in Washington, D.C., he is also a member of the California Political Attorneys Association.