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Published October 13th, 2022
County News: Changing times lead to challenging days for election workers
CSSE Member Chris Harvey, former elections director for Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, spoke with County News (of the National Association of Counties) about challenges facing election workers and officials in the months ahead.
“In 20 years as a police officer working homicide in Atlanta I never was ever threatened, but I received death threats after the 2020 election, right before the Senate runoff,” he said during NACo’s 2022 Annual Conference. “It took leaving the police world and going into the elections before my life was threatened. I had to have the police outside of my house.”
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