By Wendell Steavenson
It was November 2022 and Beth Gilbert was running the midterm elections in Luzerne County in Pennsylvania when the voting machines ran out of paper. Although she was only 28 years old, she had a masters degree in political management and had already served on the city council. Initially Gilbert had been hired as deputy director of the Bureau of Elections. But when she was only three months into the job, the director quit and she found herself in charge of managing the voting process.
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