Joe Gloria - Election Official Legal Defense Network

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Joseph Gloria is the Former Registrar of Voters for Clark County, Nevada, serving just over 1.2 million registered voters in Nevada’s largest county. Mr. Gloria has been in the election profession for over 30 years, starting as a voting machine technician in New Mexico and progressing to the position of Registrar of Voters in Clark County, Nevada. He completed his Certified Election/Registration Administrator (CERA) training through the Election Center, graduating in August of 2015. He also completed his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at the University of Phoenix and his Master of Public Administration from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

“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."

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