A CBS News investigation has found since the 2020 election, Texas has seen a high turnover rate of people who oversee the elections in the state’s 254 counties.
More than one-third of the election administrators and county clerks are new as the 2024 election approaches.
“I think it’s going to be an intense season coming after the 2020 election,” said Dallas County Election Administrator Heider Garcia. “There’s been a lot of pressure, and the tone and social media can be very difficult.”
For Garcia and others who run elections in counties across Texas, the political pressure has been a challenge.
Garcia said while it hasn’t been a big problem for him in Dallas County, it certainly was when he oversaw elections in Tarrant County. He remembers being harassed.