Voting Security Bill of Right
Preamble
We, the Citizens, in order to secure the integrity of our elections and preserve the foundation of self-governance, affirm these essential rights. No government, election official, political party, or private corporation may violate, obscure, or abridge these rights without dismantling the legitimacy of democratic consent itself.
1. Right to Transparent Elections
Citizens have the right to directly observe, document, and verify every stage of the election process — including voter registration, ballot creation, handling, voting, counting, and certification — without obstruction, restriction, or reliance on government assurances alone.
2. Right to Chain of Custody Integrity
Every ballot must be continuously protected through an unbroken, publicly observable chain of custody from issuance to final tabulation. Citizens have the right to monitor and audit this custody.
3. Right to Lawful Ballot Access
Only lawfully eligible, properly authenticated citizens may request, receive, and cast a ballot. Citizens have the right to demand strict authentication procedures at the point of ballot issuance and casting.
4. Right to Secure Ballot Casting
Citizens have the right to cast their ballots privately and securely, free from intimidation, coercion, surveillance, or mishandling.
5. Right to Election Fraud Remediation
Citizens have the right to cast secret ballots that protect voter privacy. However, voting systems must be designed so that fraud, tampering, or errors can still be detected, investigated, and corrected through secure chain-of-custody protections and public audits — without violating voter anonymity. Confidentiality must not shield election misconduct from discovery and remediation.
6. Right to Accurate Vote Counts
Citizens have the right to ensure that every lawful vote is accurately counted, that the counting process is visible and publicly observable, and that official results are verifiable through physical evidence.
7. Right to Publicly Verified Elections
Citizens have the right to directly verify the accuracy and legitimacy of election results through independent observation, public audits, and full access to election records, not blind trust in institutional declarations.
8. Right to Politically Balanced Election Management
Citizens have the right to election offices that are politically balanced, free from domination by any party or faction, and accountable to public transparency requirements.
9. Right to Public Election Systems
Citizens have the right to review the code, hardware, and procedures used in election systems. Secret or proprietary systems that obstruct public inspection violate this right.
10. Right to Enforce Election Laws
Citizens have the right to legal standing to challenge election irregularities, seek civil or criminal remedies against violators, and demand the remediation of fraudulent or corrupted elections.
11. Right to Secure Voter Registration
Citizens have the right to access, audit, and correct voter registration records to ensure only eligible voters are permitted to cast ballots.
12. Right to Rapid Remediation of Vulnerabilities
Citizens have the right to immediate public disclosure of discovered vulnerabilities in election systems and to the rapid, verifiable correction of such flaws before further use.
13. Right to Fair and Transparent Districting
Citizens have the right to legislative districts that are drawn through a transparent, publicly accountable process that respects geographic communities and preserves equal representation. District boundaries must not be manipulated to entrench political power, favor any political party or faction, or erase the voice of smaller communities through partisan gerrymandering or mob-rule redistricting.District maps must be durable, compact, geographically logical, and subject to public audit and challenge before they take effect.
14. Right to Pre-Certification Grievance Resolution
Citizens have the right to raise election disputes and have them reviewed, investigated, and resolved through transparent legal processes before election results are certified. No election should be finalized while credible allegations of fraud, misconduct, or irregularities remain outstanding. Certification must be contingent on the full and fair resolution of all lawful citizen grievances to preserve the integrity and legitimacy of the electoral outcome.
Closing Declaration
The legitimacy of government rests solely on the consent of the governed, and consent cannot exist where elections are hidden, manipulated, unverifiable, or unaccountable.
These rights are not granted by officials.
They are inherent to free citizens, and must be defended and preserved.