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If all politics is truly local, it should be huge news when someone like
Kammi Foote decides enough is enough.
As the registrar of voters for Inyo County, Foote spent 14 years on democracy’s front lines in a job that is equal parts educator and administrator. California gives wide latitude to its 58 counties in how to run elections, and a corps of veteran registrars call the shots across the state.
But something has changed. Registrars with decades of experience are calling it quits, stymied by the ever-growing list of election mandates that come without the funding to make them a reality made worse by the personal and professional threats made by voters amped up on partisan rage and destructive conspiracy theories.