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Were reporting any threats immediately. were responding and having law enforcement officials in my state respond very quickly to deal with them. election workers in my state, county clerks, poll workers, staff, should feel safe, and that their secretary of state and their law enforcement, either at the federal or state level have their backs. but the reality is we should not have to be living through this. this is not how a democracy works. this is not how our country has worked for the past 246...

Some safety measures include staff being walked to cars by security, panic buttons and keypad entry to doors.

Poll workers. its like they have a menu of conspiracies. elon definitely did it. elon musk took over twitter just days before the election and now democracy is definitely at risk. they dont hide the fact that they hate freedom of speech. they just say it out loud. not just on twitter like dick durbin did. but when you vote, you speak. and the democrats are really worried about what you have to say. here is biden preparing us for election chaos. >> more and more ballots cast in elections is by ma...

Out on tuesday with the results. . balding, did not hear back. [inaudible] >> i want to address the immediate former president who continues to fend the flames of hatred and violence. the rhetoric that he used in that clip and at the rally is what has ignited heat and extremism across the country. and really jeopardize the lives of poll workers, made it much more toxic at the polls. spent hours and hours at the polls, supporters, that is all

Also showed another conversation with them about the tax rate that he removed from law for buying private planes. what happened? he bought three of those private planes and pretty sure there arent that many private plane owners in that audience, hes trying to distract from what hes doing and thats the fact that hes leaving those folks behind that he was talking to that a conversation. trying to make it, you know, something going on to cover up the fact that he isnt there for us. >> let me play y...

Poll workers. its like they have a menu of conspiracies. elon definitely did it. elon musk took over twitter just days before the election and now democracy is definitely at risk. they dont hide the fact that they hate freedom of speech. they just say it out loud. not just on twitter like dick durbin did. but when you vote, you speak. and the democrats are really worried about what you have to say. here is biden preparing us for election chaos. >> more and more ballots cast in elections is by ma...

Out for come tuesday in this regard? >> i think that law enforcement is gonna have to make sure that people have free and unfettered access to the polls. poll workers, election workers, are protected. we remember when the votes are being counted in arizona in 2020. there was a mob outside of some of these election offices. the trump rhetoric of the stolen election has moved things to a very dangerous place here in this country. even election workers fear for their safety. many of them leaving th...

Election workers have received 140 threats between Jul. 11 and Aug. 22 in Arizonas most populous county, records show.

I remember going to vote with my mother. it was a fire house in our small town. and it was a ritual to go and vote. and your mom regularly worked polls for elections until she passed away i know in 2014 your daughter has served as a poll worker. and now theres all these threats on election workers. >> yes. >> in a sense, it is personal, something you personally understand. >> it is not just personal to me but to millions of americans who ever work the polls themselves or know someone in their fa...

-- msnbc contributor and editor at large of the -- thank you all very much. i will start with you. in our final preelection nbc poll released just this morning, it found that 23% of registered voters said, quote, threats to democracy is their top issues into the midterms. thats not without reason. i do want to play some comments from republicans of your home state, wisconsin. take a listen. >> did you commit to accepting the result of tuesdays election? >> we have placed a lot of his observers, ...