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The relative anonymity of being a non-partisan city clerk. until a right-wing website posted her name as an election worker. >> in the comments there were types of ammunition to use on me, types of guns. talk of lynching. just the other day i got a message. someone sent me an article about a shooting and said "coming soon to a home yeanear you." >> reporter: how long do you think you can keep doing this? >> my answer to that question would probably change every day. so i just try to stay very busy so i'm not ruminating over everything. >> reporter: what do you mean by you try to stay busy? >> ...

Election year. >> it's going to be crazy. >> reporter: so what's going to happen to some of these election offices across the country? >> well, i think you're going to have a lot more republicans and a lot more conservative people standing up to make sure the elections, nothing happens like what happened, you know, a year ago. >> reporter: in the battleground state of wisconsin, where joe biden edged out trump by roughly 20,000 votes, madison city clerk maribeth witzel-behl is bracing for what happens this year. >> you question is it taking a toll on me that i can't even see? am i going to dri...

Hell and i can't take it anymore. >> this is a midterm election year. >> it's going to be crazy. >> what's going to happen to some of these election offices across account entry. >> i think you are going to have a lot more republicans and a lot more conservative people standing up to make sure the elections -- nothing happens like what happened, you know, a year ago. >> reporter: in the battleground state of wisconsin where joe biden edged out trump by roughly 20,000 votes, madison city clerk mary beth bell is bracing for what lies ahead this year. >> you question is it taking a toll on me tha...

Former president trump's lies. but then it devolves into actual violence. >> it's really breathtaking, and we can say, well, it's not me, i'm not an election worker. but think about it, alisyn, people taulk about the big lie, and of course it's a lie, and that election and a pandemic involved tens of thousands of regular americans coming out to do their civic duty for the rest of us. who's going to do that if they're afraid for their lives, if they're afraid for the safety of their families. you know, do we want a situation where there's no one that is willing to do the work of the people beca...

To vote, that their vote would be counted. if they decided to vote absentee, their vote would count or if they decided to show up at the polls, they would not be subject to threats or intimidation or any efforts to deter them from voting. and in fact, i filed pretty unique case against a couple well-known republican operatives just for making robocalls to residents in the city of detroit providing disinformation to them about the way in which to vote absentee. because it was so important to me that people were not using illegal means to deter people from voting. but the best i can do is to coo...