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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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George Chidi

‘I don’t talk politics with anyone’: Georgia voting official on the pressure faced by election workers

woman smiling in photo layered with illustration of hand holding up 'your vote counts' button and 'I'm a Georgia voter' sticker with a peach
Sabrina German is responsible for registering voters and helping to oversee elections – one of thousands of officials engaged in this effort nationwide. Illustration: Eddie Guy/The Guardian

It’s not that Sabrina German doesn’t have political views. But as the director of voter registration for Chatham county, Georgia, talking politics is like breakdancing in traffic. “I don’t talk politics with anyone,” says German; she knows better.

America’s partisan minefield has trained much of the country – aside from that one uncle you avoid at weddings and funerals – to get pretty good at the art of political diplomacy in polite company.

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