Advancement Project Survey Shows Need to Hold Election Officials Accountable
Voter Protections Newsletter Volume 2 Issue 3
June 8, 2007
A new Advancement Project survey finds that state and local election officials are often paid annual salaries in excess of $100,000 for the critical work of ensuring fair and open elections, but election officials often fail to perform adequately. To assist communities in holding election officials accountable, Advancement Project’s recent survey provides the names, terms of office, and salaries of election officials in certain counties of Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Advancement Project encourages voters and their advocates to demand answers from their election officials because, just as voting is fundamental as an exercise of political power to improve neighborhoods, the quality of election officials is fundamental to the right to vote.
