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🗓️ 3 October 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Local election officials are working hard to make sure the 2024 election goes off without a hitch. And they're doing that despite being criticized, hounded, attacked, and threatened.
Three county elections officials, Democrats and Republicans, from Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania share their experiences from the frontlines of America's elections.
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0:48.0 | This is on point. I'm Meghachra Bardi. Since 2020, one of the toughest least appreciated jobs in America is also one that |
0:57.6 | used to be one of the most ignored, being a county elections official. |
1:03.0 | But then, the 2020 election, |
1:05.2 | and Donald Trump's continued insistence that the election was stolen from him. |
1:09.6 | It was not. |
1:10.8 | But that insistence subsequently made county elections officials the targets of criticisms, |
1:16.4 | attacks, and even death threats. |
1:19.7 | But they continue to work in every U.S. county, including yours, to ensure that Americans enjoy |
1:25.6 | the privilege of a free and fair opportunity to vote. |
1:30.9 | So today we'll hear from three county election officials, all from swing states, |
1:35.4 | about how much harder their jobs have become and what they are doing to prepare |
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