Election workers brace for wave of threats as 2024 nears: 'It will get worse'
The Justice Department has prioritized the protection of election workers from waves of threats they have received since Donald Trump's election lo...
The Justice Department has prioritized the protection of election workers from waves of threats they have received since Donald Trump's election loss in 2020. More than a dozen people have been charged with threatening election workers after the department established a task force in 2021, led by its public integrity section, and one of that unit's top-ranking officials told the Associated Press that federal investigators hoped those prosecutions would deter others from threatening workers tasked with overseeing votes.