Harassment of election officials, misinformation, excessive public information requests, and frivolous lawsuits are driving many experienced poll workers into retirement and making it hard to recruit new ones.
Those were some of the election administration problems that the Senate Rules Committee heard about on March 28.
Committee Chairperson Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) opened the two-hour hearing by citing a recent study, which found that one in three election workers are concerned about their safety and one in six have actually been threatened.
“We must support our election officials,” she said.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar speaks during a hearing in Washington on June 15, 2021. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
A good way to start solving the problems facing election administration, said Klobuchar, is to “tackle the spread of misinformation on social media.”…