A Republican elections official in Texas said she was forced to resign after “fierce attacks” from Trump supporters after officials in a county that overwhelmingly voted for the former president spread misinformation about the election.
Republican elections administrator in Hood County, TX, Michele Carew wrote in a Washington Post op-ed on Monday that her handling of the election “came under fierce attacks from partisan activists, in meetings and online.”
“Though it was my duty as election administrator to be nonpartisan, that was characterized as a flaw,” she wrote.
She said that one county commissioner at a Hood County Commissioners Court meeting in May said that nonpartisan in the county “means Democrat.”
She resigned last month following a monthslong effort by residents and officials loyal to former President Donald Trump to force her out of office.
Carew, who voted Republican for the past decade said “in the ‘stop the steal’ frenzy that followed the November elections, I apparently was not Republican enough.”
Trump overwhelmingly won Hood County, Texas in the November 2020 presidential election, receiving 81 percent of the vote.
“The 2020 election was a year ago, but we are still reeling from the lies and conspiracy theories that put public servants such as me on the chopping block,” she said. “Demanding partisan loyalty from those who run our elections threatens our democracy.”
Officials in the state are trying to give her duties to an elected county clerk who has used social media to promote baseless allegations of widespread election fraud.
