Published on: 09/13/2022 – 03:13
With less than two months until the midterm elections, local election officials must contend with an avalanche of unusual demands.
With our correspondent in Washington, Guillaume Naudin
You are overwhelmed. In more than 20 states and even more counties, local election officials have trouble responding to unusual requests.
Citizens are asking them to provide them with election declarations or other documents related to the 2020 elections. It is precisely these elections that Donald Trump and some of his supporters are challenging against all evidence and numerous court decisions. And they’re the ones who seem to be in charge.
The requests are often written in the same way, except for technical terms that the requesters themselves do not know how to indicate when they are requested. Because local election workers are reacting to these demands. Firstly, from the desire for transparency, which is essential for trust in elections. Then because the law obliges them to do so.
Except the crowd interferes with their work. While responding to these demands, they are not working on organizing the next deadline, the November 8 midterm elections. Some wonder if that isn’t the goal. To create the conditions for possible mistakes and new protests by the artisans of refusal to vote.