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As of January 2024, Maryland’s turnover rate was 46%, which means almost half of the officials overseeing presidential elections in the state are new compared to those in 2020, according to data from the Bipartisan Policy Center.
“There’s a lot of angry people in this world that do not trust the election process,” Taylor said. “I don’t know how to get through to them.”
Dallas County Election Administrator Heider Garcia told CBS News Texas the pressure has worked on election administrators he knows.
“There is an increase and it’s undeniable that it’s directly related to the environment that we’re subject to,” he said.
77 out of 254 elections jurisdictions in Texas lost at least one local election official since 2020, according to a CBS News analysis of OSET Institute research of media reports and news releases.
“For me, the greatest concern is that the departure of experienced officials creates vulnerability for how the public is going to perceive elections, at exactly the same time that the information environment has just been absolutely poisoned by a lot of baseless and unfounded claims,” Perez said.