People visit a booth set up by Fulton County to recruit new poll workers at the Alpharetta Farmers Market on Sept. 10, 2022, in Alpharetta, Ga. Lies about the integrity of the 2020 presidential contest by former President Donald Trump and his allies are spurring new interest in working the polls in Georgia and elsewhere in the nation for the upcoming midterm elections.
Outraged by false allegations of fraud against a Georgia elections employee in 2020, Amanda Rouser made a vow as she listened to the woman testify before Congress in June about the racist threats and harassment she faced.
"I said that day to myself, 'I'm going to go work in the polls, and I'm going to see what they're going to do to me,'" Rouser, who like the targeted employee is Black, recalled after stopping by a recruiting station for poll workers at Atlanta City Hall on a recent afternoon. "Try me, because I'm not scared of people."
About 40 miles north a day later, claims of fraud also brought Carolyn Barnes to a recruiting event for prospective poll workers, but with a different motivation.
"I believe that we had a fraudulent election in 2020 because of the mail-in ballots, the advanced voting," Barnes, 52, said after applying to work the polls for the first time in Forsyth County. "I truly believe that the more we flood the system with honest people who are trying to help out, it will straighten it out."
Barnes, who declined to give her party affiliation, said she wants to...
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