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Have to deal with all of this, firsthand. his name is don melas, and hes the republican chair of the bipartisan election commission in the battleground state of wisconsin. don willis was appointed to that position after his predecessor abruptly resigned earlier this year, citing the avalanche of criticism he got for simply stating that donald trump lost the 2020 election. needless to say, don notice has his work cut out for him. >> election day is less than a month out, and it sounds like you ar...

Can talk about this going into the election, the more they can identify their voters shoo id love to sit in this chair 22 days from now and say nothing happened. yes, some people sent people in to watch because theyre skeptical, but they didnt harass anybody, the vote was counted, we can all say democrats, republicans, whoever won t vote is fair. one of the reasons the suspicions are out there is trump continues to say the election was stolen. theres zero evidence of that. and people like steve ...

And he says his actions may not intimidate others in florida and plane got their voting rights restored in the last few years or changes in floridas law, and we could see more of these election police workers because nbc found that 45 states have gop candidates on the ballot that have questioned or denied the results of the 2020 elections, including 227 house nominees, 18 gubernatorial nominees, 17 senate nominees and 10 secretary of state nominees. so a lot of worry out there that these arrests...

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Text alert system to notify 53% disapprove. election officials about threats >> mike barnicle, you just dont at polling sites. know about these polls. it depends on who theyre the system, which was officially talking to, how the pollsters activated yesterday, allows are interpreting it. thousands of poll workers to theyre all over the place. report any threats or concerning but, you know, i will say this, behavior they witness. >> this is great. when i read articles that are talking about how un...

People are voting they may not be represented in the voters they actually cast if these people have the power to overturn elections in future. >> are there some things youre watching on both election day and the days that follow, as absentee ballots are counted? whats on your radar? >> well, certainly watching for what people say in their statements in the immediate aftermath after the midterm elections and quite candidly threats against the poll workers, against election workers who, you know, ...

All we can do is follow the law, follow the rules, giving everybody the real information, and then answer every question they have. >> reporter: and to that point, one thing that he talked about in addition to that is the threat against poll workers. we saw that with two workers in fulton county who had to go into hiding after a number of conspiracy theories were aimed at them. and we can report here first on nbc news, that the secretary of states office is rolling out a new program starting tod...

Meanwhile, election integrity groups have been taking steps to defend the process and the 2022 general election results.

Georgia poll workers are being equipped with a new tool designed to help protect them — a text alert system to report any threats at their polling places.

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