Black Poll Workers Are Bracing for Security Threats Ahead of Election Day
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Deidre Lesesne, a Pittsburgh-based poll worker, remembers the anger that seized her in 2020 when a group of white election monitors harassed a young Black voter who had arrived with his mother, father, and little brother. These monitors, supporters of former President Donald Trump, claimed that the underage sibling was attempting to cast an illegal ballot. “I just lost it. I said…