In Key Nevada County, Harassment of Election Workers Takes a Toll
Cari-Ann Burgess, the interim registrar of voters for Nevada’s Washoe County, was the third top elections official the county had seen in four years.
Some of her predecessors left the office under a deluge of harassment and threats. Now, a county spokeswoman said last week that Ms. Burgess has taken a temporary leave because of “stress related health issues.”
Ms. Burgess’s leave highlights the enormous strain election officials across the country have been under since 2020 as a direct result of former President Donald J. Trump’s stolen election lie. And it has thrown a pivotal swing county in a battleground state into a measure of uncertainty with the start of early voting two weeks away and Election Day close behind.
“Is Cari-Ann going to be able to complete the election, or is she not? That unknown creates a lot of anxiety, because you’re worried about her as a person,” said Francisco V. Aguilar, Nevada’s Democratic secretary of state, in an interview. “Second of all, you’re worried about the operation and the voters in Washoe County.”....
The Washoe County Board of Commissioners, the elected body that governs Washoe, appointed Ms. Burgess as the interim leader of the elections office in January. The office is in charge of everything from printing ballots to tabulating the votes, nonpartisan and often mundane tasks that have become partisan flash points for Republicans who have sought to undermine confidence in the count.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/us/politics/nevada-election-harassment.html
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