There have been several reports of large mass resignations in many US states among the election staff, especially those that decided the results in the last presidential elections.
Many election officials have warned of an increase in vacancies in polling stations because of the threats that election officials continue to receive so far.
They also called on local and federal authorities to provide more protection for them and their families who receive death threats.
Barb Byrom, a clerk for Ingham County, Michigan, says he and his colleagues consider their safety and their families more important than a job, he says, so some county writers have chosen to quit or retire.
In Fulton County, Georgia, county election director Richard Fallon says he’s never seen anything like this in the past 22 years he’s worked.
Fallon added that he and his employees began receiving all kinds of calls and messages, threatening them that they would come to kill them in their offices or among their families, and these messages and calls also contained many racial threats, especially since his electoral office staff consisted of approximately ninety-nine percent of African Americans.
