A Michigan Election Worker Received Serious Threats in 2020. She’s Not Backing Down.
SlateTina Barton’s job does not keep her in one place for very long. Every place Tina Barton lands, she’s doing the same thing: getting elections officials all in one room, with law enforcement, to create a plan for November. It may sound sensational, but it’s not far off from the voicemail Barton herself got right after President Joe Biden won the White House, when she was done counting votes. When you wrote an op-ed for CNN, you quoted this 2019 speech you gave where you basically said, “People are doubting our work, and I’m worried about it.” When did you first become worried? At the end of election night, we’re sending results to our county, and it didn’t appear that the county had received one of our files where we had about seven to nine precincts on there.
History of this topic
The election system shuddered in 2020. Now, there are fears of an attack within
NPRDiscover Related
)
