{"id":54228,"date":"2022-11-07T15:24:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T23:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54228"},"modified":"2022-11-08T08:25:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T16:25:11","slug":"election-officials-bracing-for-trouble-at-the-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54228","title":{"rendered":"Election Officials Bracing for Trouble at the Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By<\/span>Peter White<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Doubts about election integrity among Republicans continue even as experts say rigorous and transparent safeguards are in place to ensure a secure election.<\/em><\/h2>\n

Three hundred candidates are running for office in 2022 who don\u2019t believe Joe Biden won the 2020 Presidential Election. They won\u2019t all win but imagining even half of them in office is an unsettling thought.<\/p>\n

According to election experts, there are so many safeguards in place to protect election integrity that finding no evidence of fraud is reassuring, but not surprising.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite the many challenges that election officials faced in 2020 with the pandemic and with record breaking turnout, federal officials and election security experts declared that election the most secure in history,\u201d said Derek Tisler, an election specialist with the Brennan Center. \u201cWe are confident that 2022 will have a similar outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tisler spoke during an\u00a0EMS media briefing<\/a>\u00a0alongside California Secretary of State Shirley Weber.<\/p>\n

Still, despite evidence to the contrary, data from Pew Research says\u00a0only one quarter of Republicans<\/a>\u00a0think votes cast in person in the midterm election will be counted accurately, while just four-in-ten are very or somewhat confident absentee and mail ballots will be counted accurately.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Democrats are overwhelmingly confident in-person votes will be counted accurately (95%) and have become\u00a0more\u00a0<\/em>confident in absentee and mail voting since 2020. Nearly nine-in-ten (88%) are very or somewhat confident, compared with 77% in 2020.<\/p>\n

Tisler said election workers across the country count ballots and then check and recheck them against other records until every eligible ballot has been counted and included in the vote total.<\/p>\n

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