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Khaya Himmelman
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Khaya Himmelman is a reporter at TPM, based in New York. She previously covered politics and misinformation for The Messenger, Grid, and The Dispatch.
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Shasta County officials and election experts worry the conspiracy theories will only intensify ahead of the 2024 election.
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After becoming a hotbed for conspiracy theories and violence against election workers in 2020, officials in Arizona’s largest county have renovated the county’s election infrastructure, going so far as to install fencing in the tabulation center parking lot so voters can’t take pictures of election workers or their license plates.