11 percent of local election officials say it's likely they'll quit before 2024 vote: survey
Eleven percent of local election officials in a new poll say it’s likely they’ll quit before the 2024 election, amid a noted uptick in threats and harassment against the workers.
A Brennan Center survey of local election officials, released Tuesday, found that 21 percent of local election officials overall either began serving after the 2020 election cycle, or are unlikely to continue serving through the 2024 cycle, a turnover rate that the researchers say is “equivalent to one to two local election officials leaving office every day since the 2020 election.”
Nearly three in four local election officials in the poll say they feel threats against them have gone up in recent years — while 25 percent think the threat level has stayed the same and just 2 percent think it’s decreased.
Fifty-one percent in the poll say they’re somewhat or very worried that the threats and harassment will hurt retention and recruitment.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3971038-local-election-officials-theyll-quit-2024-vote-survey/