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    Jackie Calmes: All tricks, no treats for midterm election workers

    Remember when running elections was so safe, so uncontroversial, that volunteering to work the polls seemed to be mostly the avocation of public-spirited retirees? Sure you do, because no matter how old you are, that describes your whole voting life. Until Donald Trump. American history's sorest loser has strafed the foundations of democracy with his lies about rigged ballots, and for his own ...
    by Jackie Calmes, Los Angeles Times Oct 29, 2022 3 minutes
    In this photo from June 21, 2022, Wandrea ArShaye“ Shaye” Moss, a former Georgia election worker, becomes emotional while testifying as her mother Ruby Freeman watches during the fourth hearing held by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, DC.

    Remember when running elections was so safe, so uncontroversial, that volunteering to work the polls seemed to be mostly the avocation of public-spirited retirees?

    Sure you do, because no matter how old you are, that describes your whole voting life. Until Donald Trump.

    American history's sorest loser has strafed the foundations of democracy with his lies about rigged ballots, and for his own selfish ends, he has demonized the selfless folks who've long been democracy's worker bees. The defeated president's demagoguery has spawned red-state voting restrictions and radicalized his MAGAts, whose harassment and

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