was not maga enough and began to mandate he overhaul the entire voting system. to do away with the machines, do away with mail ballots. those are things that have to be changed legislatively, and it s not permissible legally for me to do away with all this stuff. can understand we the people don t want voting machines or mail in ballots. reporter: after just four months bob quit. at my age i don t need that. i need less drama. reporter: a trump supporter also left her election job in another arizona county last year. i ve never been treated so poorly, so disrespected. reporter: so much of the vitriol directed at election workers like bob, lisa, and jerri is fueled by false beliefs about voting machines, about ballots and election workers themselves. i had a guy tell me that he
all of new hampshire, and it is really stunning what s going on. and i think haley is surging in new hampshire. and, you know, iowa is going to be a big deal because if she happens to win or even come close to trump in iowa, this is brand new race. and if you re saying if haley beats desantis in iowa, you think it s over, governor, for desantis. i think it is because he s certainly going to beat him in new hampshire and that s two states in a row. when you re a newcomer, that s tough. frank, as you well know the former president lost iowa in 2016 to ted cruz. though he tweeted afterward kind of a harbinger of things to come. either a new election should take place or cruz results nullified. how well does he have to do this time to meet or exceed expectations? he s got to get over 50%. that s been the excuse trump has used not to participate in debates, not to the gauge the other candidates. in fact, to try to force the other candidates out of the race. he would say i m gettin
could hack into our election equipment through the power outlet. what do people believe? nonsensical. it never has been like this before. it s not stupidity. they don t care about truth or integrity. they just want their outcome. i think that s it. reporter: she s spent most of her life working in the court system as a county attorney, but she says the abuse she received as an election worker topped it all. i have been treated better by murderers, child molestermolesters, thieves, rapists, than the political parties and the elected representatives. reporter: harassment is one of the main reasons election officials across the country have called it quits. across 11 western states more than 160 top local election officials have left their positions since november 2020. we re asking a lot of our elections workers to deal with not only the general misinformation out there but
county for six years. we actually had to hire armed security because the people that worked in the office with ballots were concerned people were going to break the door down. reporter: lisa had enough of intimidation and threats and last year she quit. your successor is a man named bob bartalesmeyer. reporter: this is bob. the election itself just didn t seem like it had been in the past elections. there was just something off. reporter: back in 2020 he shared these facebook posts falsely claiming trump legally won by a landslide. sometimes it s hard for me to accept that there wasn t some errors made in the election. but i m not sure that it was to the extent that it would have changed the election. reporter: for some of the election conspiracy theorists who forced lisa out of her job in cochise county, bob s doubts about the 2020 election made her
carolina which comes next, then it s a brand new ball game. appreciate it. thank you. interesting. next, a live update on the backlash after american and british strikes on yemen. squt and what the houthi militants who control the country might do next. also later tonight the arizona election official found out even election skepticism is isn t enough in a conspiracy fueled political world.