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From the blog of Alexander Portnoy at The Times of Israel

Response from law enforcement thus far to those threats. one of the notable things about this defense network is the long bipartisan list from election officials across the country who signed on to this mission. their advisory board includes the republican secretary of state from georgia who you will recall was denounced by former president trump were not succumbing. he and his family were briefly forced into hiding by the death threats they received thereafter. also on the board, the democratic state, there were dozens of armed protesters outside her house a month after the presidential elect...

Them with these new laws in place simply to try to scare them from doing their jobs well. >> michigan secretary of state jocelyn benson on the advisory board of the new election official legal defense network. jocelyn, thank you for joining us tonight. thanks for helping us understand. >> thanks for having me, rachel. thank you. if you are a lawyer watching me right now, particularly if you are affiliated with some big law firm that does pro bono work, if you go to the legal defense website, there is two places that you can input information in there. one is if you are an election official w...

Their backs, that we express respect for professional administration and that we give them the sense that if they're under attack they can continue to do their jobs and there will be those who have the capability to defend them. so, this is both an attempt to deter individual threats that may be very difficult for individual electioned a my stray tortoise do their job but send a message to the election official community that there will be a systematic effort to protect them and that we want them to stay on the job because we depend on them so vitally for the operation of our democratic system...

From pro-trump voters egged on by trump's claims that the election was stolen from him and there has been little effective response from law enforcement thus far to those threats. one of the notable things about this defense network is the long bipartisan list from election officials across the country who have signed on to this mission and have help with what they're doing. their advisory board includes the republican secretary of state from georgia who you will recall was denounced by former president trump were not succumbing. raffensperger and his family were briefly forced into hiding by ...