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– Before every election, Roxzine Stinson prints out a sheet of paper with the phone numbers of state legislators, the secretary of state’s office and political party chairs. If any voter complains about an election issue, Stinson gives them a copy.
Those threats are among several reasons election researchers say the rate of turnover among election officials has steadily grown. According toreleased Tuesday by the Bipartisan Policy Center, turnover among election officers nationwide has grown from 28% in 2004 to 39% in 2022. Turnover is defined as a change in a jurisdiction's chief election administrator since the November general election held four years prior.
For example, in Tarrant County — Texas’ largest and most populous swing county — Heider Garcia, a well-respected elections officer, resigned from his post in 2023. He faced death threats stemming from lies about the outcome of the 2020 election as well as significant pressure from the county’s top elected official, who suggested there had been widespread voter fraud in 2020. Heider now runs Dallas County’s elections.
Policy and societal changes have also made the job of an election worker more demanding without a compensatory increase in wages, the report said. Cyber threats and disinformation have become more prevalent and have forced election workers to become information and technology experts. Policy changes have also forced workers to adapt to changing legal rules, often with little notice.in 2021 that included a number of changes to elections.
The aging workforce has contributed to the high turnover rate among election workers. According to surveys of local election officials conducted by the Congressional Research Service, approximately 63% of election officials were 50 years old or older in 2008. In 2020, that number had jumped to 74%.
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