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Article: Casting more than your vote: the Hatch Act and political involvement for law enforcement personnel.
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- The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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'The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter." (1)
--John F. Kennedy
Every election year brings more than simply the ability of exercising an individual's democratic right to vote. Elections also generate questions from legions of government workers concerning the impact of the federal statute governing partisan political activity, often referred to as the Hatch Act. Most federal employees know that the act applies to them in some way but they may not know how or why. More baffled yet are the unsuspecting state and local employees who find that the act may ...