Local election workers fear threats to their safety as November nears (AP MAGA Hit Piece)

Channel 3000 News/AP ^ | April 22, 2024 | AP Staff

[Diana in Wisconsin]

The group gathered inside the conference room, mostly women, fell silent as the audio recording began to play.

The male voice, clearly agitated, railed against what he thought had been fraud that cost former President Donald Trump reelection four years ago.

“You’re gonna pay for it,” said the man, filling his message with expletives and suggesting his target's throat be slashed with a knife. “We will take you out. Your family, your life.

"Watch your … back."

The call had been directed at one of their own, a city clerk who had overseen elections in 2020 in suburban Detroit. The former clerk, Tina Barton, played the recording of the call she had received to an audience that included several dozen local election clerks and law enforcement officials who had gathered recently inside an office building conference room in northern Michigan.

“I want you to understand this voicemail is the same type of thing that we’re seeing across the country, and it can find you anywhere you are — small community, large community, Michigan, Arizona. It can find you,” said Barton, who was overseeing elections in Rochester Hills when she received the voicemail a week after the 2020 presidential election.

The recent gathering in Traverse City, a picturesque community on the shores of Lake Michigan in a county that has twice voted for Trump, was part of a national effort to train local election workers on how they can respond to threats and work with law enforcement to counter them.

As the nation barrels toward another highly charged presidential election, the threats to election offices that have been an alarming consequence of Trump’s false claims about his 2020 loss loom as a perilous wildcard for the thousands of local government workers who will oversee the indispensable infrastructure of the nation’s democracy.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

One longtime election official who attended the Michigan training, East Bay Township Clerk Susanne Courtade, not only plans to stay for the November election but is running for another term despite being harassed in the aftermath of the 2020 election. She said she faced attacks on her character and demands for her removal.

“I felt attacked, but then I also felt that if I stepped aside, they win,” she said. “I’m sad that we are at this point where we have to understand better how to prepare and protect ourselves and our citizens and our workers, but I’m glad that we are able to come together.”

[linMcHlp]

bttt

[38special]

Just setting us up for the big steal 2.0

[mewzilla]

Honest elections don't look like this

[mewzilla]

Deep State is trying to scare people into voting early and/or voting by mail.

Don’t do it.

Doing either/both gives aid and comfort to Deep State.

[Bon of Babble]

But this is A-OK:

"Two members of the New Black Panther Party, Minister King Samir Shabazz, and Jerry Jackson, stood in front of the entrance to the polling station in uniforms that have been described as military or paramilitary. Minister King Samir Shabazz carried a billy club, and is reported to have pointed it at voters while both men shouted racial slurs, including phrases such as "white devil" and "you're about to be ruled by the black man, cracker."

The Obama Department of Justice later narrowed the charges against Minister King Shabazz and dismissed the charges against Jackson, the New Black Panther Party and its leader."

[Nervous Tick]

They’re afraid? Good.

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
When the government fears the people, there is liberty.

[Lockbox]

Well since the caller has not been found and charged with a crime, must be a fake call to set up the scenario….. wonder who uses those methods 🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐

[metmom]

The call was probably made by one of their own to smear the right.

[right way right]

I for one hope that they do fear and that fear helps them decide that cheating is a real bad idea.

[Eagles6]

True. Like the “hate crime” hoaxes.

[Eagles6]

Yep.

[Blueflag]

I’ve worked as an election official since Reagan first ran for office. NEVER had any real issues, nothing but complaints about the line length, not wearing a hat or shirt with candidate-related stuff. NEVER had anyone violate a firearm policy or act-out.

However ... during training (required every election cycle) this year several women of color and one blue hair non binary voiced their FEAR of violence. The woman who runs elections for the county pointed out that in Hall County (Hall, 85% for Trump) has NEVER had a LEO-response worthy incident. She added that every precinct has an assigned deputy(s) on site and the managers all have a direct line to the Sheriff’s dispatch, bypassing any 911 call.center. NET: we’re prepared AND it’s never been needed, (so stop listening to NPR and MSNBC).

They’ve been prepped and believe in their dark hearts that the right is the problem.

[butlerweave]

Cameras and armed security at every polling station

[OHPatriot]

I have a suggestion for these election workers, DON’T CHEAT!!!!

Maybe a bit of fear will help to achieve an honest election.

NAH, AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN. CHEATERS CHEAT!!!

[hecticskeptic]

The call was probably made by one of their own to smear the right.
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Probably? I’d say undoubtedly.... even from my computer screen, I can smell the smoke from the embers of that modern day Reichstag fire...

[Vaduz]

The democrats party doesn’t want to just rule elections they want a want a one party government as we are seeing it in motion by trying to end Trump’s chances.

The Constitution was wrote to protect the people from the government it’s why they have done everything to get rid of it.

[Rockingham]

Democrats stole the presidential election in 2020 in Michigan and other key states. Election workers and the new media now profess to be shocked that the public distrusts election officials.

[blackdog]

The media is run by the politicians you kicked out of congress and the bureaucrats that got outed in disgrace.

What possible good can come from that?

[daler]

So, with overwhelming evidence of Democrats stealing elections going all the way back to 1960 this is the story the AP coughs up?

I may have missed a few, but it seems every time I see a headline reporting someone charged with election fraud, it turns out to be-voila-a Republican.

That seems a little strange, yet predictable to me.