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Politico zach montanaro. zach, walk us through the examples you cited that take us to michigan? >> yeah, good morning, jonathan, michigan is really the hot spot of this, the most concerning and most recently made public was in a county called kent county, a poll worker allegedly inserted a usb drive in whats called a poll book, a list of where the reporters is after the august primary. the election officials there announced an investigation there recently in conjunction with the local law enforc...

Election as well, one of the candidates reportedly told poll workers if you see something wrong, unplug a machine which is obviously not what you should be doing at a polling place. >> so, zach, what are some ways to prevent something like this from happening? what safe guards are being put in place? >> right. >> so what is being put in place? >> yeah. unlike, you know, an election denier becoming, an election official itself, secretary of state or clerk, the challenges being a poll worker is a ...

If you know someone looking to work during the midterms, Supervisor of Elections Wendy Sartory Link says she needs to hire as many as 500 poll workers ahead of November 8.

If you know someone looking to work during the midterms, Supervisor of Elections Wendy Sartory Link says she needs to hire as many as 500 poll workers ahead of November 8.

If you know someone looking to work during the midterms, Supervisor of Elections Wendy Sartory Link says she needs to hire as many as 500 poll workers ahead of November 8.

60% of americans and voters will see election deniers on their ballots. despite hope theyre going to the polls knowing who these people are, but i want to pick off something else that matt said around the process of accepting presidential results, because in his addition to these conspiracy theorists who are running as candidates. you also have conspiracy theorists to sign up as volunteers, as poll workers, and they could turn away voters. they could try to obstruct the vote counting process. th...

And theyve already started the killings. >> thats unhinged stuff and textbook aggressive defensiveness. likewise ex-program trolled new dejts in the michigan weekend speech where he said democrats are dangerous people who are willing to burn every american institution to the ground while saying i dont believe well ever have a fair election again. trump also commented on senator mcconnell, declaring him to have a death wish, while attacking his wife, elaine chow. mcconnellsality ledged sin includ...

Right now, especially as we round up to the november midterms? >> there certainly is, as you mention, theres been a shortage of poll workers in many places around the country. i think that was true in 2020, but it became more true as a result of the kind of threat that we just been talking about. so i think that election officials are eager to have people like remiss -- who wants to help our democracy continue to thrive. and sign up to people workers. . >> shot, for our go back to amanda, i want...

Her facebook masses after that live by trump. take a listen. >> i went to that i calm and, it was just a lot of horrible things there. >> those horrible things, the day include threats? >> yes. a lot of threats. wishing death upon me. tell me that ill be in jail with my mother and saying things like be glad its 2020 and not 1920. >> its unbelievably disgusting. her testimony, and the -- added ripple effects. but its in the fact she might not expect to have occurred. the associated press spoke wi...

Down. it affected me so much. my heart blood for them. my heart was bleeding. i was like, how can, that was my main thing, how can? but i was so moved to my soul, i said, i can do something. i can go work at the polls. let the people come to me. im going to stand out for miss moss and miss freeman. the polls, i want them to come at me. im not going to fold. im not. >> shawn, lets be clear here, weve also seen a lot of people who used to be poll workers, on the other end of the spectrum, quiet, b...