Election officials and the 2022 election

Published April 6, 2022 at 5:00 AM EDT

A poll worker helps a voter cast a ballot at Franklin County's early voting center during the last weekend of early in-person voting on March 15, 2020. The primary was supposed to be on March 17, but just before the polls were to open on March 17, Gov. Mike DeWine ordered them closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the deadline to return ballots was extended.

2020 marked the most secure election in American history, according to a post-election report from the federal government. That’s despite record-high turnout, a tsunami of disinformation, and a pandemic.

The result was thanks to countless hours of work from thousands of election officials across the country, but as we head into the 2022 midterm election cycle, officials are again under the gun.

Today on All Sides with Ann Fisher we discuss the people who make our elections work and the challenges they face in 2022.

GUESTS:

Aaron Ockerman, Executive Director, Ohio Association of Election Officials
Elizabeth Howard, senior counsel in the Brennan Center for Justice's Elections & Government Program
Matt Weil, Director of Elections Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center

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