Eroding trust in US elections taxes state investigatorsSALEM, Ore. (AP) — As complaints about elections, many of them unfounded, pile up around the country, investigators tasked with dealing with them find themselves on the front line of defending the integrity of America’s system for choosing local, state and national leaders.Vocabulary of voting: A glossary guide to the 2022 midtermsMedia preps for 2022 election with focus on democracy issuesEXPLAINER: Threats to US election security grow more complexHelping Whalen sort through hundreds of complaints are Russ Buttram, who spent 20 years in the Marines and the next five as executive director of operations for a school district, and campaign finance expert Amanda Kessel.“Not only are we seeing more requests for investigation and more cases that we’re having to work on, we’re facing a lot of pressure from people to come up with a certain decision that favors them,” Whalen said, adding that some people try to barge into the office to make demands.McGrane is likely Idaho’s next secretary of state, having won the Republican nomination.And I think that’s something election workers all around the country are doing.”___Learn more about the issues and factors at play in the midterms at https://apnews.com/hub/explaining-the-electionsAnd follow the AP’s election coverage of the 2022 elections at https://apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-elections."