Why Poll Worker Policies are Crucial for Functioning Elections
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
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🗓️ 25 October 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In two weeks, millions of Americans will head to the polls for the 2022 midterm election. During that time, an estimated one million poll workers will help administer the election and ensure the process runs safely and smoothly.
Ahead of the midterms, Lawfare managing editor Tyler McBrien sat down with Rachel Orey, associate director of the Bipartisan Policy Center Elections Project, and Grace Gordon, a policy analyst on the project, to talk through their latest report, “Fortifying Election Security Through Poll Worker Policy.” They discussed how elections are fundamentally a human enterprise, why poll workers are so important, and how states can better safeguard against efforts to use poll workers to undermine election credibility.
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| 1:09.0 | It has been more challenging for them to retain poll workers just because of how controversial the election process has gotten. |
| 1:17.0 | We have all of these rapidly changing rules and discussion about how elections are run. |
| 1:23.0 | It's discouraging poll workers from coming back or from staying involved specifically in that state, but in others as well. |
| 1:29.0 | Anacdotal research or anacdotal reports from election offices have also reported that the nature of the increase of threats to election workers |
| 1:39.0 | and temporary election workers has also discouraged poll workers from coming back and supporting elections just because it is so volatile. |
| 1:47.0 | I think people are rightfully afraid that if they come and they are a poll worker and something happens that they could be put on the national spotlight and vilified. |
| 1:57.0 | We have seen so many times with the individuals at the forefront of our democracy. |
| 2:03.0 | I'm Tyler McBride, managing editor of LawFair. |
| 2:07.0 | This is the LawFair podcast, October 25th, 2022. |
| 2:11.0 | In two weeks, millions of Americans will head to the polls for the 2022 midterm election. |
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