Natalie Adona, the clerk-recorder and registrar of voters in California’s Nevada County, is having a bad week.
For almost two years now, her inbox has been inundated with public records requests from people who falsely believe the 2020 election was stolen. Thanks to a handful of online conspiracy theorists, though, this has been the worst week yet — not just for Adona, but for many election officials around the state.
“The requests are growing exponentially,” she said. “There is some comfort in knowing that it’s not just us.”
Every one of the requests, which are often copy/pasted from templates distributed by influencers peddling falsehoods about the 2020 election, must be carefully reviewed and responded to. Several counties have had to hire outside assistance to sort through the swarm, which officials told SFGATE is a labor-intensive distraction from their work preparing for the upcoming elections this year.
In Shasta County, County Clerk Cathy Darling Allen says that her office received 87 requests in 2022, up from just three requests in 2020. Fifty of this year’s requests came in the months of July and August alone, a big enough influx that the county had to hire outside attorneys to deal with them. Allen said many of the requests repeat false claims that Dominion voting machines were hijacked by foreign actors.
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