The Sunday Read: ‘A Republican Election Clerk vs. Trump Die-Hards in a World of Lies’ Image

The Sunday Read: ‘A Republican Election Clerk vs. Trump Die-Hards in a World of Lies’

14 July 2024 - 29 mins
Podcast Series The Daily

Cindy Elgan glanced into the lobby of her office and saw a sheriff’s deputy waiting at the front counter. “Let’s start a video recording, just in case this goes sideways,” Elgan, 65, told one of her employees in the Esmeralda County clerk’s office. She had come to expect skepticism, conspiracy theories and even threats related to her job as an election administrator. She grabbed her annotated booklet of Nevada state laws, said a prayer for patience and walked into the lobby to confront the latest challenge to America’s electoral process.

The deputy was standing alongside a woman that Elgan recognized as Mary Jane Zakas, 77, a longtime elementary schoolteacher and a leader in the local Repub...

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