Two Arizona elections officials have resigned over threats that began after the 2020 election.
Election workers, one Democrat and one Republican, sit side-by-side to adjudicate ballots inside the Maricopa county elections building on Nov. 6, 2020 in Phoenix, Arizona. Photo: Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
Two Arizona elections officials announced their resignation on Friday over threats that began after the 2020 election,The news comes nearly two years after the election that former President Donald Trump baselessly told supporters was "stolen" because of fraud. The lie is now the focus of theYavapai County Recorder Leslie Hoffman said she and Elections Director Lynn Constabile are resigning over "the nastiness that we have dealt with" since the 2020 election, Fox 10 reported.
Police provided additional protection and regularly patrolled Hoffman's home after the 2020 election due to threats, according to Fox."I’m a Republican recorder living in a Republican county where the candidate that they wanted to win won by 2-to-1 in this county and still getting grief, and so is my staff," Hoffman said, according to Fox.
"I’m not sure what they think that we did wrong," she said. "And they’re very nasty. The accusations and the threats are nasty."
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