Jane C. Timm is a senior reporter for NBC News.
Seven months after election conspiracy theories consumed a rural area of central Virginia and left residents without a functioning democracy, the voters of Buckingham County are again casting ballots. Early voting for next month’s elections is underway, and the new registrar is preparing polling sites and training workers to serve on Election Day. Political signs dot the streets of this conservative community, which is home to more cattle than voters.
Republican poll observers made a number of allegations about wrongdoing in the last election, some of which involved individual poll workers. “A lot of people said 'I’m not going to put up with this,'” Woody Hanes, a Democrat on the electoral board, said. “We have lost a lot of good people.” Hanes said they’re reminding poll observers in both parties of the rules dictating their work but said this year’s election will be worked by less-experienced poll workers than usual.
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