Texas’ turnover rate has held steady at 40% since 2014. That’s slightly above the new national average.
, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.Before every election, Roxzine Stinson prints out a sheet of paper with the phone numbers of state legislators, the secretary of state’s office and political party chairs. If any voter complains about an election issue, Stinson gives them a copy.
Those threats are among several reasons election researchers say the rate of turnover among election officials has steadily grown. According toreleased Tuesday by the Bipartisan Policy Center, turnover among election officers nationwide has grown from 28% in 2004 to 39% in 2022. Turnover is defined as a change in a jurisdiction's chief election administrator since the November general election held four years prior.
The high turnover rates have caused some election observers to fear increased challenges in upcoming elections and lower voter confidence in the electoral process. The organization behind the report highlighted that 65% of election administrators have experience running presidential elections. They advise state governments to offer higher rates of compensation for election workers and to develop strong succession planning to alleviate the need for institutional knowledge.
“The harassment is endless,” said David Becker, who founded an elections-focused nonpartisan nonprofit called the Center for Election Innovation and Research. “It’s not just when they are in the office or around election time. It might be when they go to church, or go shopping, or are picking up their kids from school. Election officials are exhausted.”
Election administrators had just a few months to understand and implement that law. It also demanded increased labor among workers who suddenly had to process each vote-by-mail application and field questions from voters to ensure they met the new identification requirements., which expanded the number of Election Day voting sites required in some 90 counties that allow voters to cast ballots at any polling location countywide.
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