Leslie Hoffman, the county recorder-elect in Yavapai County, said Friday she is stepping down later this month after facing two years of “disgust” from election naysayers, the Washington Post reported. Hoffman said elections director Lynn Constable, who had worked for the county for 18 years, was leaving for the same reason, The Post reported. Constable did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment. Election officials across the country came under fire after Trump lost the 2020 presidential election and falsely claimed fraud. However, Trump had won Yavapai County in 2020. Hoffman said, according to The Post: “I’m a Republican recorder who lives in a Republican county where the candidate they wanted to win won 2-1 in that county, and I’m still saddened, and so is my staff.” “I’m not sure what they think we did wrong,” she said. “And they are very ugly. Accusations and threats are ugly.” Hoffman accepted another job outside the county, ABC 15 Arizona reported. She said the abuse she received after the 2020 election prompted the local sheriff’s department to provide her with security, the report said. “The threats I get, the sheriff patrols my house periodically. They get a lot and when the job offer came, I took it,” he said, according to ABC 15 Arizona. The resignations of Hoffman and Constable come weeks before the state’s primary election, which begins Aug. 2. Early ballots are due to be mailed out next week. Hoffman told The Post that she was confident the primaries would go smoothly and that the remaining staff “will be very diligent in vetting anyone they would consider appointing.” While Trump won Yavapai County in 2020, President Joe Biden ultimately won Arizona, once a Republican stronghold. Last month, a former Georgia election official testified at the committee’s Jan. 6 public hearing about the attacks she and her family faced after Trump’s loss. Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, who is Black, said she received violent and racist threats from a pro-choice group, forcing her to quit her job, hide her identity and live in Airbnbs for two months after recommending of the FBI. “I felt horrible,” she told the panel. “I felt homeless. I can’t believe this person has caused so much damage to me and my family that we have to leave my home.”
