'County officials are drowning. And in some cases, when the requester does not like the response they get, they become belligerent and threatening.'
Although many counties have published electronic images of all ballots cast in 2020, election offices are receiving demands for documents including poll books, spoiled ballots, remade ballots, voter registration applications, and—a record of everything scanned by voting machines, which high-profile election deniers say could help identify ballots that they baselessly claim were switched from votes for Trump to President Joe Biden.
"They should not be used to harass or overwhelm a system as these coordinated requests from Trump supporters to local election offices appear intended to do," said Noah Bookbinder, president of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington , on Monday. In Maricopa County, Arizona, workers have fielded an unprecedented amount of requests for cast vote records. Trump backer Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, called on supporters to request the records at an event in August,"In 2021, 11 requests came in for the cast vote record," reportedlast week."In 2022, up through August 25, the county has gotten more than 90, with more coming in every day.
Election officials in dozens of counties across nearly two dozen states have been inundated with the requests.Sara Tindall Ghazal, a state election board member in Georgia."County officials are drowning. And in some cases, when the requester does not like the response they get, they become belligerent and threatening."
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