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To: Oath-taking government employees involved with the 2020 elections
Oath-taking Election Workers, Refuse Illegal Orders to Ensure Fair 2020 Elections
Across America, at all levels of government, oath-taking employees are involved with the development and implementation of free and fair elections to allow all qualified citizens to vote for their candidates and ballot measures of choices. Their oath of office gives them the right and responsibility to refuse any order or directive the fulfillment of which would cause them to violate their oath. With the 2020 elections approaching, we know there are many partisan officials and other supervisors in numerous states whose aim is to bend and/or break the rules so that the election outcomes they desire will be more likely. But in order to succeed, they will need to direct their staff to carry out their devious plans. But all members of their staffs have, through their oath of office, the right and responsibility to refuse such orders. We call on them to do the right thing, say no to oath-violating directives, and, when possible, report the corrupt election-influencing project to proper law enforcement authorities.
Why is this important?
To achieve the just, democratic society that is the goal, the ideal, of the United States of America, we must have elections that are free, fair, and draw the participation of all voters who are able vote. But a long, dark history of efforts by some partisans to prevent elections from resulting in outcomes they don't want has led to the current situation we face, where immoral and often illegal acts of many different sorts are perpetrated by those in charge of elections in order to obtain the final results they desire. The success of these actions often depends on people working under the supervision of these bad actors following their wrongful orders and directives. When these recipients of wrongful orders and directives decide to honestly, forthrightly follow their oath of office, to refuse to participate in election perfidy, and to report such activities to the proper authorities, they protect us all from illegitimate government and all of its attendant injury to our society. The make this nation the great democracy it it can and should be.