Georgia Speakers' Bureau Guide - pdf for sharing
A guide to help you schedule speaking engagements and prepare your presentation.
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LEADERSHIP
Co-Chaired by Judge J. Michael Luttig and Secretary Jeh Johnson, and with Vice Chair William Ide, III, The national Task Force for American Democracy was formed by American Bar Association President Mary L. Smith in 2023 to encourage local action by legal professionals to ensure an enduring American Democracy.
With its strong bipartisan leadership, the ABA and the task force have already made an impact by bringing important conversations to key regions across the country. These conversations about issues like ensuring trust in elections and improving civic dialogue are leading to meaningful, long-term, collaborative hard-work between legal professionals and partners who share a commitment to upholding the rule of law and strengthening our democracy.
Task force members and advisors include nationally renown bipartisan legal, business, and civic leaders who share the commitment to preserving the rule of law and democracy through grassroots activism.
Election Law Resources - Task Force Partners
Certification
Law
False claims of fraud
Challenging voter eligibility
*Processing
Security/Integrity - logic and accuracy pdf, challenging eleigbility?
*Provisional (+adjudicating, counting)
NCSL Natil Council of State Legislators on provisional and other changes
Pre Processing explainer - bipartisan policy.org
Tabulation
Reporting
Cure
Canvass
HAVA
Discrepancies
Audits
Recounts
Automatic Recounts
- Election Watch 2024: Changes to In-Person Voting since 2020 (September 2024). Voting Rights Lab experts identified five major trends that will impact the in-person voting experience, whether voters are casting their ballots on or before Election Day.
- Ballot Counting: A Big “Head Start” Often Explains an Earlier Finish (August 2024). In this explainer, Voting Rights Lab takes a look at how the ballot counting process and why some states report election results faster than others.
- Summer Watchlist: Legislative Trends Shaping Elections in 2024 (July 2024). Voting Rights Lab analyzes how new election laws and trends in voting legislation could shape the 2024 election in this explainer.
- Ballot Verification: The First Step Toward Securing Free and Fair Elections (June 2024). This policy analysis is an overview of ballot verification – the systems of checks and balances undertaken by election officials in each state to ensure all ballots are legitimate and counted accurately.
- Upholding the Will of the People: Understanding Election Certification (May 2024). In this policy analysis, Voting Rights Lab takes a look at the election certification process, a non-discretionary, ministerial act where winners are simply declared after the verification, counting, and canvassing processes.
- New Laws Risk Purging Eligible Voters in Advance of This Year’s Elections (April 2024). This analysis focuses on states taking different approaches to voter registration list maintenance and the fallout from some state programs that purge eligible voters.
- The Shapeshifting Threat of Election Interference (April 2024). This research report focuses on the trends in state legislation that interferes with nonpartisan election administration since 2020 and what is at stake in the 2024 election.
- New State Legislative Efforts to Stem the Tide of AI-Generated Election Disinformation (March 2024). In this explainer, the team at Voting Rights Lab examines how state lawmakers are responding to the emerging threat of AI-generated disinformation and deep fakes in our elections.
- The Truth about False Claims of Noncitizen Voting (March 2024). This analysis sets the record straight on non-citizens voting in federal elections, a subject area that is ripe with disinformation.
- Ballot Hand Counts Lead to Inaccuracy (February 2024). This analysis focuses on the growing movement to force local election officials to hand count ballots and the problems, including inaccuracy, that stem from counting ballots by hand.
- Task Force for American Democracy
- Defending Democracy, a project of the Section on State and Local Government Law
- Pollworker Esq., a project of the Standing Committee on Election Law
- Lawyers as Changemakers: Perfecting Democracy Sign-Up
- Cornerstones of Democracy: Civics, Civility, and Collaboration Commission
- American Bar Association Division for Public Education
- Political Reforms to Combat Extremism
- Increasing Trust in our Elections
- The State of Civics Education in the General Populace
- Deepfakes and American Elections
- Addressing Baseless Election Related Lawsuits
- Improving Participation in Democratic Processes
- Reinvigorating American Democracy - A Youth Perspective
- Improving Access to Voting
- The State of Democracy Education in Law Schools
- Keeping the Administration of our Elections from Becoming Politicized
- Decreasing the Political Polarization of the American Public
- The Rule of Law, The Lawyer’s Role as a Public Citizen
- American Bar Association Model Rules of Professional Conduct: Preamble and Scope
- The Rule of Law, The Lawyer’s Role as a Public Citizen, and Professional Identity: How Fostering the Development of Professional Identity: How Fostering the Development of Professional Identity Can Help Law Schools Address the Crisis Professional Identity Can Help Law Schools Address the Crisis Facing American Democracy Facing American Democracy - Kendall Kerew
- How State Bars can Defend Democracy - LDAD.org
- Election Official Legal Defense Network (Legal and Communications Assistance)
- Click HERE for resources in your state
- Sept. 5, 2024 - Knight Election Law Forum - National Media
- Aug. 27, 2024, PBS - Counting the Vote: A Firing Line Special with Margaret Hoover
We Voted, Now What? How the President is Elected. Catherine Hinckley Kelley, Eric Kashdan
September 18, 2024.
LAWYERS MUST ACT NOW TO SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY - Mary Smith, July 28, 2024, USNEWS.COM
ELECTION CERTIFICATION UNDER THREAT
"A legal roadmap to protect the 2024 election including from 35 officials who have refused to certify results". CREW. August, 2024. Citations and full text in link.
"LOST, NOT STOLEN: THE CONSERVATIVE CASE THAT TRUMP LOST AND BIDEN WON THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION." Citations and full text in link.
- MIT Media Lab's Website for downloads and videos on how to spot deepfakes.
- ABA working paper on Deepfakes and American Elections.
Arizona Elections Resources and Links
Georgia Elections Resources and Links
- September 20, 2024 - Comments on Proposed SEB Rule Amendments
- September 18, 2024 - Knight Foundation Election Law Forum - UGA
- August 19, 2024 - Comments on Proposed SEB Rule Amendments
- August 5, 2024 - Comments on Proposed SEB Rule Amendments
- July 22, 2024 - Comment on Rule of Law and State Election Board
- Subscribe to our Calednar
- Downloadable Fact Sheet
YOUR ROLE AS A LEGAL PROFESSIONAL IN GEORGIA
- Sign up to be a Poll Watcher in Georgia through your local political party. Georgia Republican Party or Democratic Party of Georgia
- Sign up to be a poll worker. Learn more about our partner organization Power the Polls.
- Become a Poll Worker in Georgia (one-page flyer, The Carter Center)
- Georgia Poll Worker Training Resources (GA Secretary of State's Office)
- Georgia Poll Worker Rules and Constraints (All Voting is Local)
- GAVREO (Georgia Association of Voter Registration and Election Officials)
- Full program video (03:13:05)
- Summary video (08:25:00)
- Program materials
- Images
Michigan Elections Resources and Links
Nevada Elections Resources and Links
North Carolina Elections Resources and Links
Oct. 14, 2024 - Knight Election Law Forum (Wake Forest University)
- Learn about the different ways to become part of the process in North Carolina
Pennsylvania Elections Resources and Links
Oct. 4, 2024 - Knight Election Law Forum (Villanova University)
- Apply to be a poll worker in PA.
- View the agenda and recorded event
Wisconsin Elections Resources and Links
Election Lawsuits Must Be Grounded in Facts, Not Theories
November 4, 2024
Election lawsuits are flooding the courts, aiming to alter voting rules in crucial states—based on unfounded claims of widespread fraud.
In response, past presidents of national, state, and local bar associations are sounding the alarm now that our courts must remain grounded in facts, not theory.
In their open letter, they urge lawyers to uphold the rule of law, warning that unfounded cases risk our democratic foundations. Download and share their urgent message and see why ethical standards in our legal system are essential to protecting the integrity of our democracy.