Adopted February 5, 2021
Reauthorized January 31, 2026
WHEREAS, the past several election cycles were very challenging with a global pandemic, changing laws and multiple natural disasters affecting numerous states and their election infrastructure and processes; and
WHEREAS, election workers across the country worked tirelessly under difficult conditions to ensure a fair, safe and accurate election for all voters; and
WHEREAS, based upon unrelenting false information from both domestic and foreign sources, extremists have taken to threatening and endangering election workers, from Secretaries of State, state election directors, local election officials and election workers; and
WHEREAS, the cornerstone of our republic is the right of Americans to vote in a safe, secure and accurate election, and their exercising of that right; and
WHEREAS, election workers are a vital part of ensuring the exercise of that right for all eligible Americans; and
WHEREAS, violence and violent threats directed at Secretaries of State, their families, staff, and other election workers is abhorrent and the antithesis of what our nation stands for.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the National Association of Secretaries of State condemns, in the strongest possible terms, violence and threats of violence against election workers and calls on all leaders to denounce these dangerous occurrences.
EXPIRES: Winter 2031
