Wesley Wilcox - Election Official Legal Defense Network

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Wesley Wilcox, CERA, is the Supervisor of Elections for Marion County, Florida. He was first elected November 2012; re-elected in 2016 and 2020 without opposition. He holds the profession’s highest designation, Certified Elections/Registration Administrator (CERA). Wilcox, as the only representative from Florida, was elected twice to the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EI-ISAC) Executive Committee. Wilcox is President of the Florida Supervisors of Elections association (FSE); serves as the FSE technical liaison for the Florida Voter Registration System (FVRS) and Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (DHSMV) and assisted these agencies with the implementation of Florida’s Online Voter Registration system. Wilcox has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Central Arkansas and has over 30 years of experience conducting elections throughout the United States.

“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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