Dear Election Law Leaders,

As we conclude this election season and look forward to a new year, we extend our heartfelt gratitude for your tireless dedication to ensuring the integrity of our elections. Your commitment to transparency, accuracy, and adherence to the law plays a critical role in maintaining public trust in our time-honored election process.

Recent polls underscore the public’s need to regain confidence in elections and those who oversee them. At Follow the Law 2024, we identified a few simple steps to rebuild this trust, which we previously shared with you. Your efforts to maintain these principles didn’t go unnoticed. We sincerely appreciate your efforts to uphold these principles:

• Bipartisan Oversight: 94% of Americans agree it’s vital that representatives from both political parties are present at every step of vote counting and certification.
• Access to Information for Verification: 86% of respondents agree that election officials should have access to all necessary information to verify that the number of ballots cast matches the number of voters.
• Timeliness and Transparency of Results: While 58% expect results within 24 hours of polls closing, 87% agree that any delay requires clear explanations, and 84% support reconciling voter and ballot totals before certification.
• Reconciliation Requirement: 78% prioritize accurate reconciliation over rapid certification, affirming that results reflect voters’ true will.

Your integrity in upholding these principles has directly impacted public trust, reinforcing confidence in elections and those who oversee them.

To build on this progress, we invite you to champion the US Citizens Elections Bill of Rights, which provides seven foundational principles to safeguard our elections further. Highlights include:

1. Only US Citizens Participate in US Elections

• Documentary proof of citizenship is required for registration, and voter rolls must be confirmed against state and federal data.
• Eliminate non-election office registration and ensure IDs clearly indicate citizenship.
• Prohibit foreign ownership or influence in voting systems and software.

 

2. Voter ID for All Votes

• Photo ID is required to confirm identity, residency, and citizenship for all voting methods.
• Enhance verification for absentee and mail-in ballots.

 

3. All Vote on Election Day, Except Qualified Absentee Voters

• End early voting and same-day registration; focus on secure in-person voting.
• Tabulate absentee ballots publicly and only count verified ballots received by close of polls.

 

4. Rigorous Voter Roll Maintenance

• Regularly clean voter rolls and publish lists of eligible voters before Election Day.
• Ensure accurate data through USPS, DMV, and public challenges to registrations.

 

5. Replace Vulnerable Voting Technology

• Transition to pre-printed, secure paper ballots and open-source election systems.
• Prohibit foreign-made voting systems and remote-access technologies.

 

6. Confirm Accuracy Before Certification

• Mandate reconciliation of voter and ballot totals before certification.
• Require independent, third-party audits of election procedures and results.

 

7. Ensure Transparency in Elections

• Guarantee public access to election records, chain-of-custody documents, and vote tallies.
• Impose penalties for withholding or destroying election records.

 

See the full list at www.VoteFair2026.com

Public trust in elections grows when transparent processes and bipartisan representation are prioritized. Again, we sincerely appreciate your commitment to embedding these practices in your office and upholding the highest standards of justice and the rule of law.

As we celebrate this holiday season, we wish you and your loved ones a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. May this season bring you peace, joy, and the opportunity to reflect on your important role in upholding our constitutional republic.

Sincerely,
Melody Clarke
Executive Director
Follow the Law

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Full list of Voter bill of rights for reference:

1. Only US Citizens Participate in US Elections

• Documentary proof of citizenship/confirmation of citizenship status to register
• States adopt Only Citizens Vote constitutional amendments
• States must confirm citizenship status of current registered voters; compare voter rolls to state DMV / other data
• Social Security Administration must confirm citizenship status per HAVV
• DHS must provide data to states at no cost to confirm citizenship status for any new registration, current voter lists, upon request
• ID for voting must clearly state CITIZEN on the ID; only IDs issued to US Citizens and state residents can be used for registration and voting
• Eliminate registration at any agency other than election offices and DMV
• No registrations added to voter rolls unless confirmation of identity, residency and US citizenship; States must confirm missing ID for residency, identity, citizenship or remove from rolls.
• Federal (and state) Census to confirm citizen population, apportion representation among states and base all representative districts (local, state, federal) on citizenship population only
• Prohibit foreign money in issue campaigns and elections, directly or indirectly, with criminal penalties for violation
• Prohibit foreign ownership of voting equipment companies and/or election related systems, prohibit foreign made or ownership of software or parts used in voting equipment

 

2. Voter ID for All Votes / Voters: Acceptable ID Confirms Citizenship

• Require photo ID that confirms identity, residency, and US citizenship for all voting methods.
• Implement additional verification for absentee and mail-in voting.

 

3. All Vote on Election Day, Except Qualified Absentee Voters; Results Election Night

• In-person voting on Election Day, no early voting
• Vote in precinct polling places, limit size of precincts so all can vote on Election Day
• Establish criteria for eligibility to vote absentee
• Require verification of identity of citizenship, identity and residency of all voters, using proper ID; no vote can be counted until verified eligible voter
• Eliminate Same Day Registration
• Processing and tabulation of absentee ballots must be conducted in public
• Absentee ballots received by close of polls on Election Day, no ballot ‘curing’ or extended deadlines for ANY ballots
• Absentee ballots verified in advance, but tabulated and reported on Election night

 

4. Confirm Citizenship, Identity, & Residency of All Voters, Rigorous Voter Roll Maintenance

• Compare voter registration lists against citizenship data, confirm identity and residency of all current registrants
• Require regular, ongoing list maintenance by all jurisdictions
• Repeal blackout periods for list maintenance under federal and state law
• Publish qualified voter list before Election Day; list of who voted within three (3) days of election
• Election offices must accept documentation of bad registrations from citizens; act on citizen challenges
• Institute procedures for USPS and DMV to notify election office of registrants’ moving
• Penalties for election officials’ failure to clean voter rolls, retain private right of action to enforce
• List Maintenance records are public records, even if outsourced to vendor
• Prohibit sharing of DMV data with any 3rd party or nongovernmental entity

 

5. Replace All Vulnerable / Insecure Voting Technology; Only Pre-Printed Secure Paper Ballots, Hand-Marked

• Eliminate touchscreens, ballot marking devices, QR Codes read by machines
• Allow for certain technology solely for disabled voters, supervised, pre-approved
• Prohibit internal modems and all remote access capability for any voting technology
• Mandatory, public pre-election testing of all technology used in elections, not vendor controlled
• No foreign-owned voting equipment companies, no foreign-made voting equipment, databases, parts, or software
• Manual confirmation and backup for any technology process, including tabulation, e-poll books,
• Publish results at each voting location prior to delivery to county, then to state, to allow comparison of results and data by public
• All voting technology built on open-source hardware and software; eliminate proprietary code

 

6. Confirm Accuracy of Election Results Pre-Certification; Require Post Election Independent Audits

• Require precinct, county/city, AND state reconciliation of number of voters to equal number of ballots to equal number of votes
• Confirm by statute certification is discretionary, not ministerial, to ensure accuracy of results
• Require independent post-election audits of election procedures & results by state auditors / 3d party (not the election offices auditing themselves)
• Eliminate risk-limiting and other pretend ‘audits’

 

7. Ensure Transparency of Elections and Election Records

• Ensure all processing, voting, tabulation procedures are open to meaningful public observer and media access
• ALL election records (including electronic) are by law public records that must be retained for 24 months
• Publish/ make available at no cost all election records (redacted PII), including all chain of custody documents, cast vote records, ballot images, electronic and all other records related to the election
• Citizen standing to sue if records are withheld or destroyed
• Provide civil and criminal penalties for withholding / destroying election records

 

For more information, please visit www.votefair2026.com