and so now michelle carew, has handed in her recognition. and she will no longer be the admissions committed of county texas. she told the tribune today that when i started out, election officials were highly respected. now we are made out to be the bad guys. one of the things that we hear from a lot of the folks at the state level that are pushing for these bizarre trumpy investigations, or fake audit of the 2020 really results, or pushing for change for voting laws because there was something so wrong with the 2020 voting, a lot of the time they say this isn't about overturning the 2020 election. it absolutely is about overturning the 2020 election. but in a more sir present danger. it's about them trying to gain control over the administration of the next election. taking the administration out of the hands of nonpartisan, technical, professionals. i'm putting it in the hands of people who say the last election was stolen, and who say that they are going to make sure the right person wins the next time. that is happening even in the redde

but for now, michelle carew has handed in her resignation. and she will no longer be the elections administrator of hood county, texas. she tells "the texas tribune, when i started out, election administrators were appreciated, highly respected. now we're made out to be the bad guys. you know, one thing we hear from a lot of the folks at the state level who are pushing for the bizarre, you know, trumpy investigations or fake audits of the 2020 results are pushing for changes to voting laws because there is something so wrong with the 2020 voting, a lot of the time they'll say this isn't about overturning the 2020 election. it is absolutely about overturning the 2020 election, but in a more present danger. it's about them trying to gain control over the administration of the next election. taking the administration of elections out of the hands of nonpartisan technical professionals and putting it in the hands of people who say the last election was stolen. and who say they're going to make sure the right person wins the next time. i mean, tha

their election in that county was overseen by a woman named michelle carew. she had a 14-year career managing local elections. she is a non-partisan figure. in fact, public records indicate she has voted in republican primaries for the past 11 years. so that's the kind of person probably you would want running local elections in a red county in texas. unless you are the local republican executive committee in hood county, which tried to push carew out. they accused her of being a secret liberal, criticized her refusing to allow a far right journalist to crash a private training session for election officials. but it's clear their real beef with carew is that she competently ran an election. which again, donald trump won with 81% of the vote. joe biden received a whopping 17%. so if there was an attempt to steal the election for biden, which of course there was not, it would have been comically inept. local republicans tried and failed to force carew out of her job after she oversees this landslide in hood county, but she eventually resigned from her position