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.