🗳️ There's No One to Count the Ballots

Not 'Quiet Quitting'. Just quitting.

Election officials are quitting in droves and this is a big problem for democracy. By some accounts one in three local election officials in America are quitting or are about to quit.

This isn’t a small, isolated problem.

Deep in Texas wine country, rural Gillespie County only has about 25,000 people. Driving around the county, as I have, you can see sheep ranches, vineyards, and white-tailed deer roaming on the outskirts of farmland.

And now you can probably spot former election officials too … because Gillespie County’s entire elections department suddenly quit last week - less than 60 days before the November midterms. If you’re a Gillespie County resident in need of a local ballot, you’ll have to deal with a darkened and locked elections office with only a “Your Vote Counts” poster hanging in a window by the door.