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Survey reveals Americans’ shift on political violence

Newsletter < Back to all Resources October 2025 As political violence increases, more Americans say it may be necessary This year, more Americans think that political violence may be justifiable. According to a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll, 30% of respondents believe that “Americans may have to resort to violence in order to get the country […]

EOLDN celebrates 40th annual Election Center conference​

Newsletter < Back to all Resources EOLDN celebrates 40th annual Election Center conference September 2025 https://youtube.com/shorts/8yGWEHYz-qY?si=0MV8CtuHoK2_4WXY Celebrating the 40th Election Center Conference Last month, we greeted old friends and new faces at the 40th Election Center Conference in Salt Lake City. EOLDN Co-chairs Bob Bauer and Ben Ginsberg kicked off the conference, delivering the keynote […]

NACo attendees share wisdom, gratitude for legal service​

Newsletter < Back to all Resources NACo attendees share wisdom, gratitude for legal service August 2025 EOLDN engages county officials from 36 states at NACo The Election Official Legal Defense Network advertised our legal service to election workers at the National Association of Counties Annual Conference and Exposition in Philadelphia. NACo, which celebrated its 90th […]

Calculated intimidation under the guise of justice​

Newsletter < Back to all Resources Calculated intimidation under the guise of justice July 2025 DOJ threat is not justice — it’s calculated intimidation By CEIR Executive Director David Becker Recent reporting in the New York Times, suggesting that senior Justice Department officials are exploring whether to bring criminal charges against state and local election […]

Swell of attorney interest in ‘democracy protection’

Newsletter < Back to all Resources Swell of attorney interest in ‘democracy protection’ June 2025 EOLDN reconnected with McDermott Will & Emery pro bono leadership Paul Thompson and Jayme Cassidy at the Equal Justice Conference. Election officials: The legal community is in your corner The EOLDN team traveled last month to San Francisco for the […]

Who is intimidating election officials?

Newsletter < Back to all Resources Who is intimidating election officials? May 2025 Many election officials request help due to internal pressure, intimidation There is a common assumption that most harassment and intimidation of election officials comes from members of the public. But since EOLDN’s founding, 55 percent of requests for legal help have originated […]

How one clerk is meeting this moment with deep transparency​

Newsletter < Back to all Resources How one clerk is meeting this moment with deep transparency April 2025 Meet Molly Fitzpatrick: The innovative clerk and bakery connoisseur making Boulder County elections work The election law experts and state and local-level election officials of EOLDN’s advisory board are crucial partners in our work. They are some […]

Largest election jurisdictions face higher levels of harassment

Newsletter < Back to all Resources Largest election jurisdictions face higher levels of harassment March 2025 Neal Kelley, former Registrar of Voters for Orange County, CA and EOLDN advisory board member, and Pam Anderson, former Jefferson County, CO Clerk and CEIR board member, connected with our team at the PLEJ conference. Heightened misinformation, harassment plague […]

Election officials express new concern, EOLDN answers

Newsletter < Back to all Resources Election officials express new concern, EOLDN answers February 2025 EOLDN bolsters service in anticipation of federal targeting Election administrators of both parties have reached out to EOLDN with a new fear: retribution from the federal government. Four years ago, EOLDN was created to support election officials facing harassment, threats, and […]

EOLDN makes a splash at Texas election conference​

Newsletter < Back to all Resources EOLDN makes a splash at Texas election conference January 2025 CEIR’s Texas Outreach & Engagement Specialist Sarah Hilderbrand stands with TACEO Executive Director Chris McGinn at this month’s TACEO Mid-Winter Conference EOLDN in Texas Election officials from across Texas gathered together in South Padre Island to celebrate the successful […]

“They’re citizens. They’re professionals. They’re our neighbors. If we start to view our fellow citizens as our enemies, we’re lost.”
— David Becker (Republican push to recruit election deniers as poll workers causes alarm | June 30, 2022 – The Guardian)
“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.”
— Ben Ginsberg (Trump’s pressure on Pence more ‘unprecedented’ than ‘what we saw in Watergate’ | June 17, 2022 – MSNBC)
“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."
— Bob Bauer (Helping election officials who are threatened | March 14, 2022 – 60 Minutes Overtime, CBS News)
"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."
— Bob Bauer (Election Workers Are Under Attack. A Group Of Lawyers Plans To Defend Them | September 8, 2021 – National Public Radio)
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