Heading into Election Day 2022, Maricopa County election worker Erin Smith was feeling cautiously optimistic about the administration of Arizona’s elections. With a motivated team of fellow election workers from all political backgrounds, a smoothly run election seemed like a real possibility.
But nothing could prepare Smith for what happened on Election Day.
“I was in Ukraine in March within a week of the war starting and … at no point was it ever as overwhelming as it was on Election Day in Maricopa,” Smith told The Federalist.
Within hours of polls opening in Arizona, election workers at roughly 30
