This is the Guardian.

Today, what happens when Trump's supporters take over an election board in a crucial swing state. The majority of my career has been spent working overseas, working with different countries

and their election processes as well as peace processes.

I only turn...

Sarah Tindel-Gazal is a self-proclaimed election nerd.

So I've observed elections in Liberia, Nigeria, Jamaica, Zimbabwe, actually observed

elections on the Cherokee Nation here within the United States and also done some the

and also done some pre-election assessments in Mali and court devoir. So fairly diverse range.

Back in 2021, she took on her latest challenge,

a part-time role on the state election board

in the American state of Georgia.

Up until then, it had actually been incredibly mundane, right?

It was one of those small obscure boards that only people who are deeply invested in

elections and election law had any interest in or any involvement in.

The year before Donald Trump had claimed the presidential election in

Georgia had been a fraud. He tried to overturn it. And Sarah might not have known it, but

his supporters had marked out her election board as a target for a takeover.

So there was an open position for chair at that point, but I clearly had no conception of where we would wind up. One week out from a US presidential election, the polls show is a dead heat. The results might come down to Georgia. But the results in Georgia

could be delayed, contested and ultimately challenged by the very people

meant to be protecting the right to vote.

From the Guardian I'm Michael Safi.

Today in Focus, how Trump's supporters are preparing to so doubt over election results in Georgia and you've been covering the politics around how people in Georgia will vote on November 5th.

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