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Adding EOLDN to your election manual

January 2026

The suggested language below can be used to include EOLDN’s legal service as a resource in your election manual. Thank you for sharing our services with your colleagues.

“The Election Official Legal Defense Network (EOLDN) is a nationwide, nonpartisan project that connects election administrators and poll workers who have been harassed, intimidated, and targeted due to their election duties with attorneys who can give legal guidance and, where appropriate, representation, at no cost. EOLDN is chaired by lawyers Bob Bauer and Ben Ginsberg and supported by a bipartisan advisory board.

Anyone who works a governmental entity to administer elections is eligible to receive help from EOLDN, regardless of party affiliation or current employment status (former election workers are eligible). The service is not available to those working at the behest of a political party. 

EOLDN attorneys represent election officials in their individual capacities. If a county or municipal attorney is unavailable to help, EOLDN can serve as a resource to find legal counsel. 

To learn more or submit a confidential request for help, please visit eoldn.org.”

“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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