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Free Legal & Communications Help Available for Election Officials

Have you been harassed, intimidated or threatened as part of your role as an election official or worker?

If so, you have legal and communication resources available to you through the Election Official Legal Defense Network (EOLDN), an organization created to provide legal and communications support for referees of democracy.

EOLDN matches election officials and workers with pro bono attorneys or communications professionals to assist officials with addressing issues related to their work on elections or election administration. This includes any efforts to undermine officials’ job duties or to threaten or harass officials.

Learn more or get help:

Visit eoldn.org
Email help@eoldn.org
Call (877) 313-5210

“They’re citizens. They’re professionals. They’re our neighbors. If we start to view our fellow citizens as our enemies, we’re lost.”

“Election officials never get praised if elections go right and the wrath comes down on them if they do them wrong. When we saw election officials being prosecuted for just doing their jobs... we formed [EOLDN] and we do provide pro bono legal services to any election officials who need it.”

“Those who are threatening … these officials, whether they're full-time, whether they're volunteers, whether they're in positions of the most senior responsibility or they're simply on the staff — those who threaten them need to know they cannot act with impunity. There will be a defense and it will be a robust defense."

"What we are seeing developing now is a huge step backwards from a focus on professionalized election administration to a heavy level of political interference in the work of trained election professionals. Our hope now is to provide [election officials] with a resource I wish they didn't have to have, but one I think they have desperately needed."

A Project of The Center for Election Innovation & Research ("CEIR")