Election workers fear threats and intimidation without feds' support in 2026

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Theregister
9 hours ago
Election workers fear threats and intimidation without feds' support in 2026

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Security Election workers fear threats and intimidation without feds' support in 2026 'Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst,' one tellsThe Reg FeatureBill Gates, an Arizona election official and former Maricopa County supervisor, says that the death threats started shortly after the 2020 presidential election. "That's when we became pariahs within the Republican Party because we were not willing to sign on to this whole election-being-stolen narrative," Gates, a life-long Republican, tol...

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