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Senior Justice Department officials are exploring whether they can bring criminal charges against state or local election officials if the Trump administration determines they have not sufficiently safeguarded their computer systems, according to people familiar with the discussions. The department’s effort, which is still in its early stages, is not based on new evidence, data or legal authority, according to the people, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe internal discussions. Instead, it is driven by the unsubstantiated argument made by many in the Trump administration that American elections are easy prey to voter fraud and foreign manipulation, these people said. Devlin Barrett and Nick Corasniti, The New York Times.
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Declining Job Satisfaction Among Local Election Administrators
Survey reveals trend in smallest jurisdictions, but identifying cause is a bigger challenge
By Paul Gronke, PhD | Director, Elections & Voting Information Center
Professor of Political Science, Reed College
The Elections & Voting Information Center (EVIC) Local Election Official (LEO) Survey has been conducted annually from 2018-2024, except in 2021. This coverage over time has allowed our research team to identify trends and changes in the election official community across two midterm and two presidential election cycles.
A deeper dive into job satisfaction provided in this policy brief shows a very worrisome trend – a steep and enduring decline in job satisfaction among LEOs serving in the smallest (< 5,001 registered voters) jurisdictions. These differences remain robust even in the face of other features of the work environment.
This brief shows that we can identify three independent drivers of job satisfaction. One is changes in workload, and the second is experiences with threats and harassment. The third is jurisdiction size, but as a causal factor, that driver remains not fully understood.
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