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Turnover plagues election offices, one swing state county trying to recover
Christina A. Cassidy Associated Press//October 23, 2023//[read_meter]
Stacks of paper too thick for Luzerne County's election equipment are seen in the county's warehouse in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. on Sept. 13, 2023. Election offices have been understaffed for years. But 2020 was a tipping point, with all the pandemic-related challenges before the presidential vote and the hostility afterward driven by false claims of a stolen election in Arizona and around the country. A wave of retirements and resignations has followed, creating a vacuum of institutional knowledge across the country. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz)
Turnover plagues election offices, one swing state county trying to recover
Christina A. Cassidy Associated Press//October 23, 2023//[read_meter]
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — The polls had just opened for last year’s midterms in Pennsylvania when the phones began ringing at the election office in Luzerne County. Polling places were...
