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an ideal candidate to replace her. to maybe some candidates in cochise your critics water saying this is an election skeptic. >> denier. >> denier. some people would view that as a disqualification. >> correct. >> there's people in cochise who raprobably saying this is our guy, he knows what's up, he knows the election been's stolen. so when you got there some people were probably happy to see you coming. >> yes. >> reporter: but then something happened he never expected. >> you weren't extreme enough. >> they found out from the beginning that i was going to follow the laws and procedures. >> reporter: and they weren't happy about that? >> some were not. >> your actions, sir, are not that of a conservative. >> if i had the authority i'd fire you. >> reporter: at public meetings in cochise county some voters who believed conspiracy theories about the election decided bob

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directly people being attacked. >> reporter: republican bill gates is on the board of supervisors for arizona's largest county. how concerned are you about the fact there are election conspiracy theorists now becoming election officials? >> i'm very concerned about that. we're seeing that in some small counties. we are only as strong as our weakest link. >> it's very sad because we need experienced election workers. >> reporter: fortunately for bob, he returned to his old election job in a different arizona county where he says he is no longer being harassed. as for the election conspiracy theories he shared in 2020 -- do you regret sharing those facebook posts? >> yes. the 2020 chapter should be closed and we should move forward. we have to believe the process of the certifications in each state of the secretaries of state. >> reporter: so you think voters should trust the 2024 election? even if trump loses?

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join the millions of people taking back their privacy by downloading duckduckgo on all your devices today. last month we brought you a report about the rising number of profanity related death threats left on voice mails for public officials. messages that threaten lynchings and other forms of violence. they're just a few examples of an increasingly toxic environment facing officials around the country as well as election workers. well, tonight donee o'sullivan reports what happened today one arizona election official that once believed the maga land conspiracy theories but then discovered it wasn't extreme enough. >> you should be in jail, you should be killed, you should be fired to just people screaming into the phone. i mean just -- and 24/7. >> lisa was the director of elections in arizona's cochees

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all of new hampshire, and it is really stunning what's going on. and i think haley is surging in new hampshire. and, you know, iowa is going to be a big deal because if she happens to win or even come close to trump in iowa, this is brand new race. >> and if -- you're saying if haley beats desantis in iowa, you think it's over, governor, for desantis. >> i think it is because he's certainly going to beat him in new hampshire and that's two states in a row. when you're a newcomer, that's tough. >> frank, as you well know the former president lost iowa in 2016 to ted cruz. though he tweeted afterward kind of a harbinger of things to come. either a new election should take place or cruz results nullified. how well does he have to do this time to meet or exceed expectations? >> he's got to get over 50%. that's been the excuse trump has used not to participate in debates, not to the gauge the other candidates. in fact, to try to force the other candidates out of the race. he would say i'm getting a

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carolina which comes next, then it's a brand new ball game. >> appreciate it. thank you. interesting. next, a live update on the backlash after american and british strikes on yemen. squt and what the houthi militants who control the country might do next. also later tonight the arizona election official found out even election skepticism is isn't enough in a conspiracy fueled political world.

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was not maga enough and began to mandate he overhaul the entire voting system. >> to do away with the machines, do away with mail ballots. those are things that have to be changed legislatively, and it's not permissible legally for me to do away with all this stuff. >> -- can understand we the people don't want voting machines or mail in ballots. >> reporter: after just four months bob quit. >> at my age i don't need that. i need less drama. >> reporter: a trump supporter also left her election job in another arizona county last year. >> i've never been treated so poorly, so disrespected. >> reporter: so much of the vitriol directed at election workers like bob, lisa, and jerri is fueled by false beliefs about voting machines, about ballots and election workers themselves. >> i had a guy tell me that he

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>> yes. >> he says he hopes people will accept the result. did he actually say if he believes they will accept the result? >> well, i think he's kind of nervous like all of us. he actually did say he think this year is going to be a bad year for the nation, it's going to be hostile, very brutal. i think to give some credit to bob there, he has these doubts personally still about the 2020 election. he is an election official, but as you saw in that piece there, he did the right thing. right? he didn't give into the extremists and the conspiracy theorists and do things as an election official that one would have been illegal, but two could have damaged the safety and security and integrity of elections there. what's really i think fascinating about bob, he has another election job now in arizona. he said his politics aren't going to come into it, and he said we should trust the process, but he has does have those lingering doubts about 2020, and he couldn't necessarily articulate why there

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is that doubt there. he's pushing out different things about vote counts and things like that. still someone really grappling with that. i do encourage viewers to go onto cnn.com. my colleagues have an article that dives in a lot deeper to just how misinformation perhaps has influenced how this person views the integrity of american elections. >> it's fascinating to hear. next allegations of an affair between fulton county d.a. fani willis and the man she picked as the lead prosecutor in the georgia election subversion case against the former president. accusations the lead prosecutor spent money he made on the case to take her on lavish vacations. anand now the e judge in thehe has set a hehearing on i it t a. detatails ahead.d.

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could hack into our election equipment through the power outlet. >> what do people believe? >> nonsensical. it never has been like this before. it's not stupidity. they don't care about truth or integrity. they just want their outcome. i think that's it. >> reporter: she's spent most of her life working in the court system as a county attorney, but she says the abuse she received as an election worker topped it all. >> i have been treated better by murderers, child molestermolesters, thieves, rapists, than the political parties and the elected representatives. >> reporter: harassment is one of the main reasons election officials across the country have called it quits. across 11 western states more than 160 top local election officials have left their positions since november 2020. >> we're asking a lot of our elections workers to deal with not only the general misinformation out there but

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county for six years. >> we actually had to hire armed security because the people that worked in the office with ballots were concerned people were going to break the door down. >> reporter: lisa had enough of intimidation and threats and last year she quit. your successor is a man named -- >> bob bartalesmeyer. >> reporter: this is bob. >> the election itself just didn't seem like it had been in the past elections. there was just something off. >> reporter: back in 2020 he shared these facebook posts falsely claiming trump legally won by a landslide. >> sometimes it's hard for me to accept that there wasn't some errors made in the election. but i'm not sure that it was to the extent that it would have changed the election. >> reporter: for some of the election conspiracy theorists who forced lisa out of her job in cochise county, bob's doubts about the 2020 election made her

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