A recent survey found 1 in 3 election officials feels unsafe at work.
ABC News’ Elizabeth Schulze reports on the growing number of election officials leaving their jobs ahead of the 2022 midterms and what that means for our elections going forward.Al Schmidt had a front-row seat to history when a batch of votes in Philadelphia tipped the state of Pennsylvania, and theAs Philadelphia's Republican city commissioner, Schmidt had been holed up for days in the convention center, making sure every vote, mail-in or in-person, was counted.
He defended the vote count and integrity of the election -- only to find himself a target of former President Donald Trump. Four days after the race was called, Trump tweeted at Schmidt saying, without evidence, that he had refused to look at"a mountain of corruption and dishonesty."Former President Donald Trump leaves Trump Tower in New York, Oct. 18, 2021."They became a lot more specific, a lot more graphic, largely targeted at my family, my kids," he said.
"There is, I'm sure, no election official in the country that when they ran for the job ... ever contemplated death threats, let alone death threats to their children as being part of that job description," Schmidt said.have resigned since 2019, according to Lisa Schaefer of the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania. She said many others cite personal and violent threats.
MORE: 'What's at stake is obviously the security of our nation,' NSA chief says of defending US from cyberattacksDemocrat Roxanna Moritz resigned in the wake of the 2020 election as the auditor and commissioner of elections in Scott County, Iowa, after more than a decade on the job. She cited a culture of bullying toward election officials, who often work long hours with little pay, because"we care about our democracy.
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