They have been hammered by a ex-President and his supporters trying to bend the system to their advantage…
Election systems are invisible all year until a few critical days….
Their has always been subjected to party politics…
They now find themselves in the media and for a lot?
The pressure and sometimes harassment along with coming changes are just not worth their time and health and well being….
This could become the weakest link of Democracy….
The 2020 election was brutal for election officials by any measure. Beyond the added burden of a record turnout, many effectively found themselves conducting two votes — the one they had traditionally overseen at polling places, and a second mail-in vote that dwarfed that of past elections. The pandemic led to shortages of poll workers and money for masks and other protection equipment and vastly complicated voting preparations.
Atop that, baseless claims of rigged voting and vote-counting by President Donald J. Trump and other Republicans elevated once-obscure auditors and clerks to public figures. And it made them targets for vilification by Trump supporters.
A report issued last week by the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University underscored the consequences: In a survey of election officials, one in three said they felt unsafe in the jobs. One in five said they were concerned about death threats.
Better than three in four said the explosion of disinformation about elections had made their jobs harder. More than half said it had made them more dangerous.
“The fact that one in three election workers doesn’t feel safe in their jobs is an extraordinary number and a real challenge to our democracy,” said Miles Rapoport, a senior democracy fellow at Harvard University’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. The center contributed to the report….
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“People are starting to second-guess if this is the profession they want to be in,” she said. “It was always a stressful job, and now it’s more so. And all these things coming down the pipe make it worse.”
Since all these Republicans are doing “audits.”
I am announcing that I am doing an “audit” of the Republican Party.
This “audit” will be as “fair and balanced “as all these Republican “audits.”
I will report my findings as the “audit” continues.
I’m not turning anything over. The license plates are already off the car.
My new (private sector) boss is the wife of a suburban (about 50,000 people) Mayor.. (nonpartisan election but Republican)
“Are you, sir, — or have you ever been — a member of the Republican Party, U.S.A.?”
“My client respectfully declines to answer that question on the grounds that doing so might tend to incriminate him.”