The nation’s secretaries of state used to be little-known, wonky bureaucrats who operated in near-anonymity. But after the 2020 election, they are now on the frontlines of the battle over trust in American democracy.
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold speaks during a press conference about the Mesa County election breach investigation on Aug. 12, 2021 in Denver. | RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via APDES MOINES, Iowa —
“I can't help to think that it undergirds everything we're doing here,” Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan, a Democrat first elected to the office last year, said of the 2020 election and its aftermath. “It has just changed the game.”The conference also made clear that the shadow of 2020 was still hanging over their offices for the foreseeable future.
Merrill and many of her colleagues trace the start of this trend back to 2016, when Russian disinformation campaigns and an intense focus on cybersecurity shot election officials to the top of public consciousness. That has drastically changed how they communicate with the public. Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, a Republican who co-chairs the elections committee for NASS, said he has also tried to pull more people into the elections process. Last year, his office placed a heavy emphasis on recruiting and training more poll workers than needed, up to 150 percent of what election officials would normally require.
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