Election workers, the vast majority of them women,

say they're feeling vulnerable to the charged political climate

surrounding the 2024 election.

38% of the women staffing the polls

say they've experienced threats, harassment, or abuse, fueling the

violence, disinformation, and conspiracy theories following the 2020 election.

Joining us now, Elizabeth Landers, lead correspondent for the Scripps News

Disinformation Desk and Liz you traveled to Surrey County in North Carolina to

really dig deep on this what did you find? We traveled there back in June to

get a sense of how disinformation is impacting

election workers specifically the almost all-female team that heads up

Surrey County's elections. This is a small county it's about 70,000 people. It's best known as the

birthplace of Andy Griffith. And it's overwhelmingly a red Republican area.

It went 75% for the former president in 2020.

Despite that though and despite him winning that area,

this small community has been dealing

with miss and disinformation around the elections

since they took place. And the woman who heads up the elections since they took place and the woman who heads up the

elections there is Michelle a Huff. She's a team of just four other people helping

her administer these elections. They're working on this year-round. She described

to us how things have changed since 2020. Take a

listen. I was actually in one store in downtown Mount Erie. I was cornered and pressed for 20 minutes. This person was getting everything

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