Voting Security Rights
Election Accountability and Enforcement:
Empowering Citizens and Officials to Enforce Election Laws, Correct Violations, and Defend the Integrity of the Vote
Laws without enforcement offer no protection, no accountability, and no legitimacy.To safeguard the integrity of our elections, enforcement must be real, immediate, and accessible to both government authorities and the citizens they serve.
Our government and citizens must stand as coequal forces in the creation, enforcement, and resolution of Voting Security and Election Law disputes. Every citizen must be empowered to participate in the lawful implementation, practice, and enforcement of election laws.
To preserve and advance the interests of every lawful voter, OAVS advocates for the following election security measures:
Our government and citizens must stand as coequal forces in the creation, enforcement, and resolution of Voting Security and Election Law disputes. Every citizen must be empowered to participate in the lawful implementation, practice, and enforcement of election laws.
To preserve and advance the interests of every lawful voter, OAVS advocates for the following election security measures:
Responsibilities and Powers of Election Management Offices
State and Local Election Management Offices (EMOs) are responsible for faithfully executing, enforcing, investigating, and ensuring compliance with all voting security and election laws as enacted by State and Local legislatures.
EMO Officers and Agents are legally accountable for election crimes and misdemeanors they commit — or enable through failure to properly implement, execute, or comply with these laws.
Citizen Legal Standing and Grievance Resolution
State law must grant legal standing to citizens, law enforcement, and legislators to bring legal action against individuals, Election Management Officers, Election Management Agents, or entire Election Management Offices for violations of voting security laws.
Citizen Petition to Delay Certification:If two or more voters in a precinct believe there is a problem with an election, they may file a petition with the local election board.➔ Certification must be delayed until the legal dispute is fully resolved and the election laws are upheld.
Citizen Petition to Delay Certification:If two or more voters in a precinct believe there is a problem with an election, they may file a petition with the local election board.➔ Certification must be delayed until the legal dispute is fully resolved and the election laws are upheld.
Investigation and Enforcement Authority
Court-imposed changes to voting security or election laws must require legislative approval before taking effect.➔ The legislative process establishes laws. Judicial decisions cannot unilaterally rewrite election law.
Civil Remedies for Voter Disenfranchisement
Casting or counting one or more illegal votes constitutes voter disenfranchisement — harming both individual lawful voters and the broader class of all lawful voters in that election.
Disenfranchised citizens must have standing to bring civil charges against the Election Management Office for violating voting security laws or derelictions of duty.
Civil damages for disenfranchised voters must be no less than the total amount of federal, state, and local taxes the harmed party has paid over the previous six years. (No Taxation without Representation)
Severe Criminal Penalties for Election Violations
Courts must be empowered to impose severe criminal penalties on individuals, Election Management Officers, and Agents who violate voting security laws.
Citizen Oversight of Voter Registration Lists (VRL)
Every citizen and every Election Office official must have the legal right to:
Object to additions or removals from the State Voter Registration List (VRL) on lawful grounds.
Seek legal remediation when Election Management Officers cannot agree on the proper handling of VRL changes.
Courts must resolve VRL disputes swiftly and must finalize all VRL-related issues prior to Election Day, in accordance with laws enacted by the legislature.
Closing
Election security is not protected by laws written on paper — it is secured by vigilant citizens, strong enforcement, clear grievance pathways, and real penalties for violations.
When citizens are empowered to hold elections officials accountable, freedom is preserved.