Election Protection in 2024 & Beyond
As the 2024 election approaches and democracy itself is on the ballot, we are missing a vital piece of the election protection infrastructure we need: a pathway for whistleblowers inside state, county, and city election offices to come forward and report any abuses or undue political interference they might have witnessed, and to be able to do so safely and legally.
Whistleblower Aid is providing that pathway.
Importantly, we provide our services entirely pro bono.
We saw in the wake of the 2020 election how poll workers and other responsible public officials were singled out, harassed, and maligned just for doing their jobs. These workers cannot simply call a reporter or call the FBI without expert legal guidance because, in most cases, they do not have the experience to know how to do this safely or lawfully. Indeed, there is a risk that people will not come forward this time around precisely because they are afraid of being in the cross-hairs and putting themselves and their families in harm’s way.
Our election protection effort:
- Educates election workers and administrators about their rights and about the avenues open to them to blow the whistle swiftly and effectively
- Protects them once they decide to come forward
- Empowers them through our advocacy and communications efforts against extremely powerful, well-funded political actors
We are providing webinars on election whistleblowing, participating in-person at panels, conferences, and other events, and will be launching a resource page and videos to educate future whistleblowers on avenues for lawfully reporting election wrongdoing.
For more information, please contact us at [email protected].
“Knowing that my family and I had Whistleblower Aid on our side helped us navigate a very stressful, complicated, and important process.”
-Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, cybersecurity expert and Twitter whistleblower
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Frances Haugen
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Frances Haugen, a member of Facebook’s Civic Integrity team, became front page news around the world in 2021 when she showed how the company was misrepresenting its progress on containing the spread of hate, violence, and psychological damage to teenage girls exposed to unrealistic expectations about their bodies. Whistleblower Aid helped Haugen disclose thousands of internal company documents and helped organize hearings in Congress and other national legislatures.
On the media side, our team managed the exclusive public launch of this case with the Wall Street Journal and 60 Minutes which generated a torrent
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Libby Liu
Chief Executive Officer
Libby Liu is an internationally renowned expert on human rights, press freedom, information operations and internet freedom who joined Whistleblower Aid as chief executive officer in April 2021.
Prior to joining Whistleblower Aid, Ms. Liu created the Open Technology Fund (OTF), where she spearheaded efforts to support tools that circumvent censorship and surveillance and advance free speech worldwide. Today, more than 2 billion people use OTF-supported technologies every day, including Signal, TOR and Wireguard.
Ms. Liu was compelled to create OTF to protect the digital lives of individuals while serving as president of Radio Free Asia (RFA), a non-profit media company that provides uncensored objective news and information otherwise unavailable to