A wave of departures by election officials in key states risks adding new stress to the nation’s election system ahead of next year’s presidential contest, voting rights groups and several state election chiefs warn.
The growing alarm over the resignations and retirements comes as officials say election workers continue to face a barrage of threats and harassment and partisan interference in their duties, first ignited by false claims of a stolen White House election in 2020.
In Wisconsin, for instance, the Republican-controlled state Senate voted in September to fire the state’s top elections administrator, Meagan Wolfe, over the objections of most of the election commissioners who oversee her work. Republicans in the state Assembly, which the party also controls, have since launched an attempt to impeach her. Trump supporters have blamed changes to Wisconsin’s voting procedures during the pandemic for his loss in the state.
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