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The thought -- often have the thought, theres poll workers, im glad they are here. and -- and this entire operation depends on them. and then, multiply that by hundreds and thousands across the country. and reading that "ap" piece, you begin to worry that this assault that was launched. the sort of vitriol and the harassment and these random workers who got caught on some viral video that, you know, blows up in a qanon forum. that has real-tangible effects on our ability, actually, to administer...

Accountability for the political leaders who have been lying to folks and -- and selling, you know, a false bag of goods. of -- of what was true about the election. it really was quite remarkable and we really cant forget that truth. in the midst of a pandemic, election officials oversaw a safe, secure, widely accessible election, where more people voted than ever before. certainly, in michigan and other states. that is truly remarkable. and the fact that thats not being celebrated. that, instea...

Accessible election where more people voted than ever before especially make shaken and other states. thats truly remarkable. and the fact that thats not being celebrated, and instead so many officials are still receiving threats in their lives for simply doing their jobs and standing on the front lines to protect the will of the people against an unprecedented misinformation campaign to deny that will is really remarkable and i think the more people can stand to support election administrators ...

Rights. its important now that the justice department yesterday is going to be announcing that we would be doubling the staff of the voting rights enforcement section. that we are going to be, you know, issuing guidances about the federal laws that are in place to protect against some of the most abnormal audits were seeing take place around the country that truly undermine public confidence in our nations elections and our democracy were very aware of the scourge of violent threats against stat...

Showered with abuse. threatened. run out of town on a proverbial real. and so it is going all over the country. reuters today has a long blood curdling report on violent threats and physical intimidation that have been unleashed in recent months. not just against elections officials. high-ranking people like secretaries of state. but even just a volunteer election workers, low level and mid level poll workers. the headline from reuters today, you can see their, trump inspired death threats are t...

Rail. and so, its going all over the country. reuters, today, has a long, blood-curdling report on violent threats and physical intimidation that have been unleashed in recent months not just against elections officials, high-ranking people, like secretaries of state. but even just volunteer-election workers. low-level and mid-level poll workers. the headline from reuters today, you can see there. trump-inspired death threats are terrorizing election workers. the wife of georgia secretary of sta...

Today, in his big speech of the great hall of the justice department today, the new attorney general merrick garland spoke directly to this issue. to his credit. >> we have not been blind to the dramatic increase in a menacing and violent threats against all manner of state and local election worker. ranging from the highest administrators and volunteer poll workers. such threats undermine our electoral process and violate a myriad of federal laws. the criminal section of the civil rights divisi...

Elections, altogether. again, that reporting today from linda sow at -- at reuters. i mean, this is the stuff of nightmares, right? nightmare for election officials and poll workers, a nightmare for democracy. and these are the people who make democracy function. right? these are the people, who like check you in when you show up to vote and make sure that if you have any problem, you have somebody to ask for help and make sure you get to the right precinct, right? anytime you every show up to v...

To the announcement where we had some locations had no poll workers. >> no poll workers. >> so what did they do? the state enlisted nearly 600 members of the air and national army guard to become poll workers. its not the first time theyve been called upon for new jersey elections. last november hundreds were brought in to help the state count mail-in ballots. this time they will be at voting locations dressed in civilian clothes. new jerseys not the only state holding primary elections today....

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