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The country. bill gates and county supervisors faced their own threats every day. >> just last friday, my colleagues and i all were treated to a orange jump suit that a gentleman sent to us and, you know, declared that we will end up in jail some day because we are traitors in the minds of these people. >> reporter: this could lead to a damaging lose of experienced professionals who know how to conduct elections. a report from the brennan center for justice found one in three election officials feel unsafe because of their job matt master son was the lead cybersecurity advisor for the departme...

Gonna leave and then that opens the door to adding less professional, more political actors into the election space which, again, is even credibly dangerous. >> she's staying, but she closed the election's office until she can beef up security. >> so it made me really concerned how powerful conspiracy theories have become that my job would become dangerous, that election administrators now in our very well established democracy has lots of checks and balances is now a dangerous profession. >> the danger isn't just the obvious threat of violence, but the threat to democracy. experts say donald ...

Because of their job. matt masterson was the lead cyber security adviser for the department of homeland security in the 2020 election. and says it's all creating an alarming situation. >> local election officials are going to leave. and then that opens the door to adding less professional, more political actors into the election space, which again is incredibly dangerous. >> woodall vogue says she's staying but she closed the elections office until she can beef up security. >> it made me really concerned how powerful conspiracy theories have become that my job would become dangerous. that elec...

>> reporter: in phoenix, republican bill gates and the fellow county supervisors faced their own threats every day. >> just last friday my colleagues and i all were treated to a orange jump suit that a gentleman sent to us and, you know, declared that we will end up in jail some day because we are traitors in the minds of these people. >> reporter: this could lead to a damaging loss of experience professionals who know how to conduct elections. a report from the brennan center for justice found one in three election officials feel unsafe because of their job matt masterson was the lead cyberse...

I'm going to stress if, because we're told that there's going to be a report someday, you know, what we're hearing in advance is that real experts in the election space, and remember, we are talking about one of the pillars of democracy here, the vote, that it should not be believed, anderson. >> appreciate it. thank you very much. coming up, president biden calling up russia's president, warning him about the russian cyber criminals attacking the u.s. a live report from the white house next. did you know prilosec otc can stop frequent heartburn