ABA Georgia Democracy Task Force - Fact Sheet

Certification

Law

False claims of fraud

Challenging voter eligibility

Roadmap of a ballot - Brennan

*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

Interactive Links:

• State Voting Rights Tracker
• Legislative Snapshots

Research and Analysis:

• 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

• What Lawyers Can Do to Defend the Rule of Law, Our Democracy and Our Elections
• What Is the Rule of Law and Why Is It Fundamental to American Democracy?

• 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.

• Malice Toward None Video (04:36)
• National Governors Association "Disagree Better" Initiative
• Braver Angels
• Decreasing the Political Polarization of the American Public

Sept. 23, 2024 - Knight Election Law Forum (University of Arizona)

• Secretary of State's Office - Elections Division
• Arizona Election Laws and Publications
• State Bar of Arizona

•  Arizona poll worker information by county

• 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 

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• State Election Board
• Secretary of State's Office
• Georgia Election Code 
• State Bar of Georgia

YOUR ROLE AS A LEGAL PROFESSIONAL IN GEORGIA

• Georgia Bar Association Preamble to Rules of Professional Conduct

• 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)

TEMPLATES

• Downloadable introduction letter
• Speakers' Bureau Template (.ppt)
• Speakers' Bureau Template (.pdf)

HOW ELECTIONS WORK IN GA

• Secretary of State’s Office
• State Board of Elections
• Local Board Structure and Elections Administration
• Georgia Election Code

• Full program video (03:13:05)
• Summary video (08:25:00)
• Program materials
• Images

Sept. 25, 2024 - Knight Election Law Forum (University of Michigan)

• Michigan Department of State - Election Information
• Michigan Election Law
• Fact Checking MI Election Information
• State Bar of Michigan

• Be a poll worker in Michigan 

•  View the agenda, recorded event, and download program materials

Sept. 11, 2024 - Knight Election Law Forum (UNLV)

• Secretary of State's Office
• Nevada Election Statutes and Regulations
• State Bar of Nevada

•  Sign up to be a poll worker in Nevada

Oct. 14, 2024 - Knight Election Law Forum (Wake Forest University)

• State Board of Elections
• North Carolina Elections and Election Laws
• North Carolina State Bar

•  Learn about the different ways to become part of the process in North Carolina 

Oct. 4, 2024 - Knight Election Law Forum (Villanova University)

• Pennsylvania Voting and Elections
• Pennsylvania Election Code
• Fact Checking PA Election Claims
• State Bar of Pennsylvania

•  Apply to be a poll worker in PA. 

•  View the agenda and recorded event 

Date TBD - Knight Election Law Forum (University of Wisconsin)

• Wisconsin Voting and Elections
• Wisconsin Elections - General Provisions; Ballots, and Voting Systems
• Fact Checking Wisconsin Election Information
• State Bar of Wisconsin

•  Apply to be a poll worker in Wisconsin

• View the recorded event and download the program materials.