Kathy Boockvar recently spoke with Governing about the Committee for Safe and Secure Elections (CSSE) and the resources and training they’ve created to help election and law enforcement officials protect election workers and voters. Boockvar praised the leadership shown by the Georgia state police, who are the first in the nation to require training in election laws for their officers, and expressed hope that many others would follow.
Boockvar also talked about the CSSE law pocket reference guides, which share state by state legal provisions that help election workers and law enforcement officers keep our elections safe. Nearly all 50 states’ guides are now completed, and the remainder will be posted on the CSSE website and available for use shortly. You can find these at: https://safeelections.org/resources
“The demand for these guides has been phenomenal,” Boockvar says. “Whether it’s law enforcement, election officials, district attorneys or nonprofits, folks who become aware of them have reached out to ask if their state is done, and if it isn’t, can their state be next.”
Boockvar also talked about federal resources available, as well as CSSE’s “Five Steps to Safer Elections,” which can help facilitate conversations between election officials and local law enforcement, and “provide opportunities to practice how they would respond to events such as threats to election workers or protests that threaten to boil over at polling places or counting rooms.”
Read the full article here: https://www.governing.com/politics/georgia-first-in-the-nation-to-require-police-training-in-election-law
Access all CSSE resources here: https://safeelections.org/resources