Former election staffer alleges Denver fired her for speaking out about poll worker safety on Jon Stewart’s show in 2022

The Denver Post: A former election worker is suing Denver, alleging city officials violated her First Amendment right to free speech by firing her after she appeared on Jon Stewart’s streaming show two years ago to talk about election safety.

Virginia Chau worked as a polling center supervisor in Denver for four years before she appeared on Apple TV+’s “The Problem with Jon Stewart” in 2022 to speak about the danger that angry, politicized voters pose to election workers and her experiences as an Asian-American woman working at a voting center, according to the lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Denver.

Chau told Stewart that she and her Denver polling center coworkers saw “increased hostility” from voters during the 2020 election and that they experienced “unprecedented racism,” the lawsuit stated.

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