I will try. The way I understand it is a surety bond is like insurance for an elected official to perform the duties of their office in an ethical and lawful manner. If a claim is made on the bond the possibility of the insurance company paying out millions becomes to big a financial threat and the insurance company checks the elected official’s unethical behavior or practice. Elected official gets put in there place so to speak and ends up having to retract their actions or decisions. If someone else is more knowledgeable please help out because I have only begun looking into surety bonds. I think this is the basic gist of them though.

People who are elected are supposed to serve those who elected them. In case they don't, or break the law, or violate the rights of their constituents - these bonds (surety bonds) can be used to make a claim against these elected officials' violation of office and/or broken oath/laws.

More important than the monetary aspect of these bonds is the fact that when claims are made against them; the investigation and resulting actions no longer require involvement from the individual who originally filed said complaint.

I could have some things wrong, but, this at least my basic understanding of it all.