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 as a poll worker since 2019. It's actually a great thing to do. 99% of the people are wonderful. Voters are rarely the issue. However, Poll watchers have been getting worst and more confrontational. I dread 2024.
The worst thing about poll watchers is that they don't have the first idea of what they're watching for. They get upset because they can't identify normal election procedure. We saw this with the 2000 mules video.
ZOMG! PEOPLE DROPPING OFF MULTIPLE BALLOTS!
Yeah, that's allowed. One person dropping off multiple ballots is NOT a marker of fraud. That is NOT what determines if a ballot is valid or not.