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Threats testimony rings familiar for election workers

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June 23, 2022
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FILE - Supporters of President Donald Trump demonstrate during a rally on, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. This week’s gripping testimony about threats to election officials by former President Donald Trump and his followers had a rapt audience outside Washington -- secretaries of state and election clerks across the country who said the stories could very well have been their own.  (Joshua A. Bickel/The Columbus Dispatch via AP, File)

 

This week’s gripping testimony to Congress about threats to local election officials after the 2020 presidential election had a rapt audience far beyond Washington — secretaries of state and election clerks across the U.S who said the stories could easily have been their own.

Death threats, harassment and unfounded accusations have driven local election officials from their jobs, unprecedented attacks that many say threaten not just themselves but American democracy itself.

A day after the local election office in Medford, Oregon, certified the results from the 2020 election, workers found a message spray-painted on their parking lot: “Vote Don’t Work. Next Time Bullets.”

“We spent the rest of the day pretty much in shock that this had happened here,” Jackson County Clerk Chris Walker testified during a hearing earlier this year on state legislation to protect election workers. “The noise happening around the country had hit home.”

Threats testimony rings familiar for election workers

By JULIE CARR SMYTHyesterday
FILE - Supporters of President Donald Trump demonstrate during a rally on, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. This week’s gripping testimony about threats to election officials by former President Donald Trump and his followers had a rapt audience outside Washington -- secretaries of state and election clerks across the country who said the stories could very well have been their own.  (Joshua A. Bickel/The Columbus Dispatch via AP, File)

This week’s gripping testimony to Congress about threats to local election officials after the 2020 presidential election had a rapt audience far beyond Washington — secretaries of state and election clerks across the U.S who said the stories could easily have been their own.

Death threats, harassment and unfounded accusations have driven local election officials from their jobs, unprecedented attacks that many say threaten not just themselves but American democracy itself.

A day after the local election office in Medford, Oregon, certified the results from the 2020 election, workers found a message spray-painted on their parking lot: “Vote Don’t Work. Next Time Bullets.”

“We spent the rest of the day pretty much in shock that this had happened here,” Jackson County Clerk Chris Walker testified during a hearing earlier this year on state legislation to protect election workers. “The noise happening around the country had hit home.”

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