Three-quarters of local elections officials and staff who responded to a nationwide survey say the federal government is not doing enough to support their needs or protect them from a rising tide of threats in the wake of the 2020 elections. That perceived lack of support and fears of “false political attacks on the election system” is why at least 20 percent of locally elected elections officials and professional staff plan to leave their posts before the 2024 election, according to a survey released this month by the left-leaning Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. The center canvassed 596 of roughly 9,250 local election officials nationwide between late January and mid-February. Of those who responded, 71 percent said the federal government must do more than launch a U.S. Department of Justice task force to investigate threats against local election officials to protect them; 42 percent said they weren’t …