Election officials in the US are under threat. A key county just faced a major test ahead of November
by The Guardian
The Guardian— Luzerne county, in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, has faced high-profile mistakes like discarded ballots, and turnover. Did it pass its primary season test?Overworked, underpaid, under attack: on the frontlines in a US election officeEveryone seemed determined not to jinx it.Jim Rose, the director of administrative services in Luzerne county in north-eastern Pennsylvania, had been listening to the radio all morning and had not heard “a single peep” about problems at the polls during...
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WKBN.com—Ohio to begin ‘enhanced’ voter roll purge ahead of November election. COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Ohio’s Secretary of State has ordered boards of elections to begin tallying the voters whose registrations will be canceled ahead of the November general election. The process, required by state and federal law, will be “enhanced” this time, Secretary of State Frank LaRose said in a news release. Elections boards must []
FOX 8 Cleveland—Ohio launches effort to clean up voter rolls ahead of November election. COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose directed county election directors on Thursday to begin a “routine but enhanced” hunt through the voter rolls ahead of November's election, in an effort he says is legally mandated to remove inactive registrations. “Every state is required to have an ongoing process to verify []