--- title: THE OFFICIALS: A Documentary from TIME Studios description: THE OFFICIALS, a short documentary about US election officials in rural and urban jurisdictions of four battleground states. canonical: https://time.com/7019638/the-officials-documentary-introduction/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-09-10T17:34:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-24T18:15:59.699Z article:section: Ideas og:title: THE OFFICIALS: A Documentary from TIME Studios og:description: THE OFFICIALS, a short documentary about US election officials in rural and urban jurisdictions of four battleground states. og:url: https://time.com/7019638/the-officials-documentary-introduction/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt83ee4167c36969f6/698a5ac19862f54ed8896221/IMAGE5_DanielBaxterSpeakingwithElectionWorkersInDetroit_THEOFFICIALS_photo-credit-cai-thomas.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: IMAGE5_DanielBaxterSpeakingwithElectionWorkersInDetroit_THEOFFICIALS_photo credit cai thomas og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: THE OFFICIALS: A Documentary from TIME Studios twitter:description: THE OFFICIALS, a short documentary about US election officials in rural and urban jurisdictions of four battleground states. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt83ee4167c36969f6/698a5ac19862f54ed8896221/IMAGE5_DanielBaxterSpeakingwithElectionWorkersInDetroit_THEOFFICIALS_photo-credit-cai-thomas.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- # Coming Soon: THE OFFICIALS: A Documentary from TIME Studios ## Video: The Officials, from TIME Studios (trailer) [Watch (HLS stream): The Officials, from TIME Studios (trailer)](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/FCjQ4YQH.m3u8) (1:26)  _Published 2024-09-16. trailer for short documentary about election officials in four battleground states. As Tonya Wichman, Director of Elections at Defiance County (Ohio) Board of Elections says, I'm a complete dork about elections."_ Sep 10, 2024 5:34 PM UTC by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Sep 10, 2024 5:34 PM UTC _Watch THE OFFICIALS_ [_here_](http://time.com/7017573/the-officials/) THE OFFICIALS, a short documentary from TIME Studios will be live on time.com on Sept. 19\. US election officials in rural and urban jurisdictions of four battleground states hold the line against organized efforts to undermine their work as they prepare for the contentious 2024 contest. _Directors/Producers Sara Archambault and Margo Guernsey, Executive Producer Maida Lynn._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/7019638/the-officials-documentary-introduction/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/7019638/the-officials-documentary-introduction/"},"headline":"Coming Soon: THE OFFICIALS: A Documentary from TIME Studios","datePublished":"2024-09-10T17:34:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-24T18:15:59.699Z","description":"THE OFFICIALS, a short documentary about US election officials in rural and urban jurisdictions of four battleground states.","url":"https://time.com/7019638/the-officials-documentary-introduction/","keywords":["Democracy Defenders","video","TIME Votes"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/democracy-defenders/","name":"Democracy Defenders"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/7019638/the-officials-documentary-introduction/","name":"Coming Soon: THE OFFICIALS: A Documentary from TIME Studios"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Officials, from TIME Studios (trailer)","description":"trailer for short documentary about election officials in four battleground states. 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