Rural county elections staff face harassment, misinformation

[suegeo]

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https://www.naco.org/news/rural-county-elections-staff-face-harassment-misinformation

The author of this article--Susan Kiepke--recently* resigned her post as Davison county auditor, due to security reasons. She has been running elections for about 17 years.

Says Ms. Kiepke

When I started administering elections, I was able to use schools for polling places. I am no longer able to do so due to security concerns.

I used to have more precincts with five poll workers at each precinct. I have cut down on precincts, polling places and now only have three poll workers at each precinct, primarily due to security concerns.

Security has become a major concern for election officials all over the country. There is so much misinformation and disinformation being generated and circulated these days that in my county of 20,000, I have asked our sheriff to be present at each commission meeting in 2024.

For the first time since running elections, I have requested security be posted at all polling places from 6 a.m. until approximately 8 p.m. or whenever the last poll worker leaves the polling place. I have also requested to have security at the courthouse where ballots are counted the evenings of the 2024 elections.

People who come into her office are not level-headed. Bullying and threatening. Security is an issue.

*Resigned around July 28 or 29, 2024. What happens now for the upcoming election?

[Think. Again.]

1. All part of the plan...

For reference:

Warnings and more warnings: THEY PLAN TO STEAL ELECTION

https://democraticunderground.com/100219260628

[appalachiablue]

2. K/R

[Bev54]

3. Yes it is part of the plan, it is the swing states that worry me more, but something needs to be done

even in states like SD, they should not be allowed to get away with this anywhere.

[Skittles]

4. these MAGAt pieces of shit DO NOT BELIEVE IN AMERICA

they LIE, CHEAT, STEAL

[MissMillie]

5. Thank you for sharing this

The MAGA noise machine makes elections more expensive and suppresses voting access.

One only need to talk to the folks who run elections to verify this.

[orthoclad]

6. When they killed

hundreds of thousands of their voters with antimask antivax nonsense, I learned two things:

1. They don't think vote counts matter. They'll rely on things like stealing vote machines (Georgia, e.g.) and driving away honest election staff. Just wait to see the armed election "monitors".
2. They are committed now. They won't stop at mass murder. They killed so many already...

Prosecute, prosecute, prosecute. Don't wait for 2027. Replace Garland NOW.