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Ways to the public and support election officials is to number one, reach out to them, and ask them how you can help, whether that be serving as a poll worker, or if you have space as a business, and you want your space to be a polling place, or you have another idea that you think could help, reach out your local officials, and see how you can help them. i would encourage that business community to think about how they can partner on voter education, and civic education issues and communities a...

San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties are working to recruit poll workers ahead of the June 7 election. Volunteer poll workers are what make elections possible, county officials say.

Santa Barbara County elections officials have doubled down on their call for poll workers for the June 7 primary election.

Georgia activists working to overcome the republican takeover of local functions. >> hi jonathan, thank you for having me. theres a lot we can do here on the ground to work against this. part of it starts with the federal voting rights legislation. very exciting that is getting legs. moving forward. want everyone to advocate for that certainly. elections happen on a local level. here in georgia, we have 159 counties. which means there is 159 different election offices where people can go and be ...

For that. but elections happen on the local level, right? here in georgia we have 159 counties which means 159 different election offices where people can go and be involved with the elections process. so were really encouraging people to do just that. get involved locally. attend local board of elections meetings. this is where the big decisions are being made about how many voting locations are available. be a poll worker. poll workers, theyre our democracy modern day heroes. theyre integral t...

Friends." certainly scary stuff. >> he faces a charge of using the interstate facilities to communicate a threatening message. thats punishable by up to five years in prison. >> barbara, what do you make of all these different threats? >> i think its a very dangerous time. for one thing, i think it is going to discourage people from seeking public office. you may be inclined to even be a poll worker, an election official, a school board member. many of these jobs are unpaid or receive very modes...

The fact my republican colleagues have said harassment of independent election officials. nobody is going to want to be a poll worker if they are harassed on a regular basis is a good step. these steps are not a substitute for the need i believe we have to take for electoral reform to make sure there is fair and equal access to the polls. we have a long way to go to convince our colleagues. when we have 16 of us talking in a place, as you know, chuck, one team or another on these issues, i think...

To find 11,000 votes in georgia, or the kanye west publicist showing up to talk to a random poll worker and trying to get her to confessed to her crimes, if those, work than they are going to need those bogus electors to swap in and steal the election. d those bogu so the skin was part of the eastman memo, we know that trump guy rudy giuliani was on board, thanks to some great local reporting out of michigan we now also have proof that trump campaign itself was directly involved as well. this is...

Against that. >> all right. thats some stuff. ari, whats your sense of it. what can and should be done right now? >> i think steve laid it out very well. ill emphasize one of his points which is a mass mobilization for democracy at the state and local level. we saw so many people get involved in 2020 to become poll workers, to become election officials and to have people have their votes counted and some of that is still going on and a lot of people went back to their lives and the problem is th...

Governor evers was elected with a 1.1 percentage point margin. thats two or three voters per precinct in our state. if you look at deeper wisconsin, smaller city, kelly rue is one of the fraudulent electors. shes on the city council into pierre. she was just subpoenaed by the january six committee and she is running for reelection. running against her as a candidate who is actually a poll worker who believes in free and fair and secure elections. so these races could shape, you, know whether vot...