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Pennsylvania election workers want to be able to pre-canvass mail-in ballots and say it will lead to faster results on election night and fewer logjams on Election Day.

Will only intensify with the 2020 midterms. >> this is domestic terrorism. lets call it what it is. these are designed to terrify the officials, its designed to make these officials lives unbearable and chase them out of office. >> reporter: david becker is the founder of the nonpartisan center for election innovation and research working with election administrators across the country. after the 2020 election, where the country witnessed local election offices become targets of rage and protest...

Republican michigan election administrator. >> we will [ bleep ] take you out, [ bleep ] your family, [ bleep ] your life. >> reporter: messages like these are what election workers fear will only intensify with the 2022 midterms. >> this is domestic terrorism. lets call it what it is. these are designed to terrorize these officials. whether they actually result in the violence thats promised or not, its designed to make these officials lives unbearable and chase them out of office. >> reporter:...

Officials lives unbearable and chase them out of office. >> reporter: david becker is the founder of the non-partisan center for election innovation and research working with election administrators across the country. after the 2020 election -- where the country witnessed local election offices become targets of rage and protest, the left-leaning brennan center for justice says ohio and pennsylvania lost around 30% of county election workers. and michigan and wisconsin also saw workers quit. co...

Of the ways in which this current version of the republican party is not only motherly bankrupt, but that they are attacking our elections, from removing the secretary of state is as the chair of the state elections board to me pech waiting this big lie thats resulting in real fins being made at county election workers, these volunteers are making a hundred bucks day and should not be subject to the kind of violent, terrific threats that they are, because theyre right to do a service. and so the...