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Increasing pressure, growing security and safety issues in states like georgia, after the efforts to overturn the 2020 election, causing many of the volunteers to quit. nbc's blayne alexander joins us from atlanta. what are you hearing from these workers about the pressure and the shortage of election workers? >> reporter: andrea, it's fascinating conversations. the perspective we don't typically hear. election workers are somebody who didn't get a lot of attention. they flew under the radar. all of that changed with the 2020 election. unfortunately because a number of them started receiving t...

Screaming at her over voting machines and not being properly counted for a ballot and despite the headache, she is telling me she is not walking away. >> angie jones never thought she would become a poll worker. >> i voted, as most americans do. i had never been involved in the political process. >> the 2016 election changed all of that. >> after that election happened, that i needed to be part of the solution. >> her solution? training to become a poll manager in fulton county, georgia. people who come to your polls and say i don't trust this process, what do you want them to know about the w...

Amid the midterm elections which are hot here in georgia as well as other parts of the country. they're gonna go back to it by the end of the year. i expect that some sort of formal recommendation, in the coming months. >> hot is intact -- in this case. greg, as always thank you so much for being with us. call it voter intimidation by design in georgia. the states already seeing record high early voting turnout. nearly 600,000 ballots cast so far. but not without challenges. you might remember last year, with the pass the election integrity add, a law -- pull watchers meeting dorner residents ...

CADDO PARISH, La.-As we approach the November election season in Louisiana, officials are weighing in on improvements made to this years election process.

SHREVEPORT, La. - As we approach the November election season in Louisiana, officials are weighing in on improvements made to this years election process.