All three election officials resigned in a Texas county, with at least one citing death threats.

The latest resignations of all three election officers in a Texas county — not less than one among whom cited repeated dying threats and stalking — has created turmoil in an space that President Donald J. Trump received by 59 proportion factors in 2020.

The exodus left Gillespie County, which has 27,000 residents and is about 75 miles west of Austin, with out an election workers simply over two months earlier than early voting begins for the Nov. 8 midterm election, although the state deliberate to supply help to the county.

The resignations of the county’s elections administrator, Anissa Herrera, and the workplace’s remaining two staff had been confirmed to The New York Occasions on Thursday by Sam Taylor, a spokesman for the Texas secretary of state. He stated the county didn’t present particular particulars in regards to the nature of the threats.

“Threats on election officers are reprehensible, and we encourage any and all election officers who’re focused by such threats to report them to legislation enforcement instantly,” Mr. Taylor stated in an electronic mail, including that “sadly, threats like these drive away the very officers our state wants now greater than ever to assist instill confidence in our election system.”

The resignations had been reported earlier by The Fredericksburg Commonplace-Radio Put up, which Ms. Herrera instructed, “The yr 2020 was once I obtained the dying threats.”

“I’ve been stalked, I’ve been referred to as out on social media,” she stated to The Commonplace-Radio Put up. “And it’s simply harmful misinformation.”

Ms. Herrera didn’t elaborate to the information group on the character of the grievances that led to the threats towards her and the opposite two staff who resigned. She didn’t instantly reply on Thursday to a message left at a cellphone quantity listed for her.

It was not clear whether or not Ms. Herrera had filed any complaints with the Gillespie County sheriff’s workplace or the Fredericksburg Police Division, neither of which instantly responded to requests for touch upon Thursday.

Nationwide, election places of work have struggled with retention amid elevated intimidation of election officers. This week, the Justice Division introduced expenses towards a Missouri man who it stated threatened an election official in Arizona.

In Texas, the secretary of state will ship coaching specialists to Gillespie County to assist staff from the places of work of its clerk and tax assessor-collector put together for the November election, Mr. Taylor stated. A few of these staff have expertise engaged on elections from earlier than the county created the elections administrator publish in 2019, he stated, noting that the state wouldn’t lend workers to the county.

Mark Stroeher, the Gillespie County choose, had requested assist final week from the secretary of state after the resignations, in accordance with Mr. Taylor.

Decide Stroeher didn’t instantly reply on Thursday to a message looking for remark, however in an interview with The Commonplace-Radio Put up, he lamented the political local weather.

“We now have some people who find themselves fairly fanatical and radical about issues,” he stated. He added: “I don’t know the way we’re going to carry an election when all people within the election division has resigned. Elections are getting so nasty, and it’s getting harmful.”

On Tuesday, a Missouri man was charged with two counts of creating a risk final yr on the non-public cellphone of an election official within the recorder’s workplace in Maricopa County, Ariz., the state’s most populous, after the county grew to become a spotlight of efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Stephen Richer, the county’s recorder, was the goal of the threats, in accordance with his workplace, which referred to a press release Mr. Richer posted Wednesday on Twitter.

“Sadly, I’ve PLENTY extra to maintain them busy,” Mr. Richer wrote of the F.B.I., including that different election staff in Maricopa County who didn’t maintain workplace had obtained threats.

The person who the authorities stated made the risk, Walter Lee Hoornstra, 50, of Tecumseh, Mo., might resist seven years in jail if convicted. His case is the sixth made public by a Justice Division job power that was created final yr to concentrate on the intimidation of election officers.

Joseph S. Passanise, a lawyer for Mr. Hoornstra, stated in an electronic mail on Thursday that his consumer, a disabled fight veteran, pleaded not responsible throughout an look earlier within the day in federal courtroom in Springfield, Mo.

“He’s actually embarrassed and humbled by the eye this has introduced him and his household,” Mr. Passanise stated. “The sheer superior energy of the federal authorities could be extremely intimidating to any citizen as soon as charged.”