And like in Maricopa County, Arizona, you know, which is more than half the state’s population. And one of the ways that we tried to check ourselves, you know, is this really a thing was looking at the Democrats as sort of a control group, so we could compare past increases in Republican precinct officers, and we could also see if there’s anything similar going on on the Democratic side. And the out of the 65 counties, forty one of them said they had seen an increase. And we asked them how many new precinct officers or whatever they call it they’ve had since February, which is when Bannon started promoting this and total in aggregate, it was more than 8500. Florida, Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, the states that decide elections. So the ones you’re used to hearing about on election night. S2: So we contacted the local party officials in 65 counties in the most electorally significant states.
Can you just lay out the basics of exactly what you found when you called those people? Because it’s dramatic, you found a big increase. S1: I know that ProPublica contacted GOP leaders in 65 key counties. We need to send the county clerk really long lists of really hardcore Republicans so that we can make sure we’ve got people in the precincts running the polls who are looking out for fraud. County chairs are going, Wait a minute, we need to stack. They were like, Well, you know, on Election Day, it’s more important to us to have our volunteers out doing other things. And in the past, this really hasn’t been an issue because the party’s like basically didn’t bother. But the poll workers, who are technically called election inspectors, are nominated by the county party, and the law says that the county clerk has to hire the party’s poll workers if they provide them.
And so to give you some specific examples in Wisconsin, the election is run by the county clerk. And every state’s a little different, but that’s the basic idea. S2: So overall, the the key thing to understand is that the county party, the local party officials, have direct influence on the election administration through these like formal mechanisms.
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