Experts are sounding alarms just over a year out from November 2024 that the presidential election could suffer from chaos and confusion after high turnover of local election officials and workers in key states.
Threats and scrutiny often linked to false claims of voter fraud have contributed to a surge of local election officials leaving their posts in recent years. The exodus could mean understaffed and inexperienced teams are left to grapple with continued conspiracies and misinformation surrounding the election process in 2024, with some running a high-stakes presidential election for the first time.
Richard Hasen, an election law expert and a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, said he’s “quite worried” about the attrition of election officials and workers nationwide but argued it’s “not surprising” given the threats and harassment lobbed at many in the jobs.
I’ve worked in elections and it’s not an easy process. Most people just can’t pick it up and run with it.
Deadlines, ballot printing issues, machine issues, training staff, weather, website issues, uocava, ada compatible machines, precincts, accurate address files, ballot shortages etc etc.
Shit is tough. My heart goes out to all the people who are doing this now under the unfounded scrutiny that this stupid old ball sack put on people. All of a sudden people with no knowledge about elections are “experts” and some are now running the show.
Hopefully liberal groups who are buying the voter files are watching for fucked deadlines to sue the piss out of these morons