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Former Westmoreland County Election Director Beth Lechman, who resigned three months before the contentious 2020 general election, has been appointed election director in Centre County. Lechman, who led the Westmoreland elections office for five years, began her new job Monday. Public records show the officials in the county of 165,000
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HARRISBURG Among the most stressed-out folks in local government this week will be the former manager of the USA Field Hockey team, a congressman’s past chief of staff, and an ex-political science professor.
They’ll all be running elections in Pennsylvania for the first time during Tuesday’s primaries and they will do it under the microscope of a skeptical GOP electorate galvanized by Republicans in the state legislature.
After what election directors described as a “nightmare” election in 2020 in which huge changes to Pennsylvania’s voting process were complicated by the pandemic and partisan misinformation fueled by former President Donald Trump and his allies at least 25 of their peers left their jobs.
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After a ‘nightmare’ year led to massive job turnover among those who run Pennsylvania s elections, there are growing calls for standardized training to provide more support and guidance.