Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.
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Although individual states have primary responsibility for conducting fair and impartial elections, the FBI becomes involved when paramount federal interests are affected or electoral abuse occurs.
The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.
Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.
You have a responsibility as a locally elected deputy, but you also have a responsibility as the head of government.
At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.
Everything from who sits on your local board of education to the prosecutors and judicial appointments in your area and much more are all impacted by who holds political office.
Newspapers can make their own judgment in terms of who they support in a general election. Our responsibility is to make a considered judgment about where the national interest lies.
As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.
Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.