{"id":29450,"date":"2024-12-31T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/31\/what-did-us-election-officials-learn-about-our-democracy-from-2024s-vote\/"},"modified":"2024-12-31T16:48:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T16:48:00","slug":"what-did-us-election-officials-learn-about-our-democracy-from-2024s-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/31\/what-did-us-election-officials-learn-about-our-democracy-from-2024s-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"What did US election officials learn about our democracy from 2024\u2019s vote?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials have faced threats and harassment campaigns since 2020. Here\u2019s where election denialism stands now<\/p>\n<p>When the Gwinnett county board of elections held its monthly meeting on 20 November just outside of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/atlanta\">Atlanta<\/a>, the county\u2019s election director, Zach Manifold, noticed something was different.<\/p>\n<p>For months leading up to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-elections-2024\">presidential election<\/a>, there had been a steady stream of people who would come to speak at the board\u2019s meetings, many of them concerned about the potential for fraud or wrongdoing. But this time around, weeks after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s victory both in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/state-of-georgia\">Georgia<\/a> and in the US presidential election, fewer than a half-dozen people signed up to speak during the public comment portion of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/31\/election-officials-democracy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials have faced threats and harassment campaigns since 2020. Here\u2019s where election denialism stands now When the Gwinnett county board of elections held its monthly meeting on 20 November just outside of Atlanta, the county\u2019s election director, Zach Manifold, noticed something was different. For months leading up to the presidential election, there had been a &#8230; <a title=\"What did US election officials learn about our democracy from 2024\u2019s vote?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/31\/what-did-us-election-officials-learn-about-our-democracy-from-2024s-vote\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What did US election officials learn about our democracy from 2024\u2019s vote?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}