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The cornerstone of our democracy. so i thank you and i encourage you to keep on being poll workers and do not be determined or deterred by any nonsense that youre hearing. >> im sure that means a lot. and justin, what about you. you talk often about election administrators as in your words, our currency is trust. what have you faced and why do you keep doing what do you? >> yeah, i do it for my kids. i do it because i want their generation to grow up in a country where we have this foundational ...

Eligible residents could get two hours of college credit along with a $350 stipend already offered should they work as a precinct official for the general election.

San Diego County put a call out Thursday for anyone interested in becoming a poll worker to staff vote centers that will open for nearly two weeks leading up to...

Ballot counting center for repeatedly getting too close to workers. >> i told them they were breaking the law -- >> was happening in michigan is happening across the nation. attempts -- from poll workers, all the way up to candidates, from secretary of state -- has led seminars in eight swing states, all under the presumption democrats cheat. cnn caught up with her in wisconsin. >> -- make sure that there is another set of eyes going on, watching the ballots, watching the process, knowing what i...

>> well, first of all, if you remember in the election two years ago, there were so many problems. >> reporter: with election staffing, with who counted ballots. but shes an election denier too. she filed a baseless lawsuit in detroit alleging election fraud in 2020. it was thrown out. >> to kind of reframe it and make it more fun and interesting, i said, just, you know, instead of causing a bunch of scenes and things like that, just write it down. just kind of be like spies and let me, you know...

>> it is extra training partisan training not just for volunteers observing elections but including the actual paid election workers who will check in voters and out ballots and even help in the counting which is why what they are being told is alarming. >> does a lot of bad stuff thats happening in some elections. we are going to have to keep our heads on a swivel and just start of document the irregularities. >> the poll workers are hired by townsend clerk,, in wayne countys republican chair p...

Trying to do here. drew, thank you so much for bringing us that report. >> thanks. with us now cnn senior political commentator david axelrod and political commentator scott jennings. wow. i mean, just wow. to see that footage that drew got there, what i like to call a single entan dra, only one interpretation of these poll workers being trained to do something you cant do. >> yeah. well, i mean the thing thats most disturbing, john, is this is all predicated on a massive lie, which is that th...

Thats happening in this upcoming election, so were going to have to keep our heads on a swivel and just start documents irregularities. >> reporter: the poll workers are hired by towns and clerks. >> if they were told by their trainers they could not have their phones with them. >> i would say maybe just hide it. and maybe hide a small pen. you need to take accurate notes. >> if we are observed with a pen and a piece of paper writing on anything, they just said they would ask us to -- that they ...

Drew are states prepared if a bunch of partisan, as they say ultra maga election workers show up to work this election? >> theyre trying to get prepared. michigan secretary of state, who you had on the show last night, says her clerks are prepared, and they can remove some of these people if they are violating the rules. but i think, more importantly, anderson, the clerks tell me that these election deniers, these maga people, are actually borne of ignorance of the voting system. and what they a...

Just write it down, just kind of be like spies and let me, you know, let me know whats going on. >> reporter: while michigans primary election went smoothly. >> i did nothing wrong. >> reporter: a poll challenger affiliated with colebeck and his training was thrown out of detroits ballot counting center for repeatedly getting too close to workers. >> i told them that they were breaking the law. >> reporter: whats happening in michigan is happening across the nation. attempts are under way to mak...