‘You Will All Be Executed’: Arizona Poll Workers Endure Right-Wing Midterm Threats
"It feels very much like predatory behavior and that we are being stalked," the Maricopa elections director recently told county official"
KENNY STANCIL, Nov. 7, 2022
Election workers in a hotly contested Arizona county have endured more than 100 violent threats and intimidating messages leading up to Tuesday's crucial midterms, most of them based on thoroughly disproven lies about Democratic voter fraud that former President Donald Trump and his allies have repeated for the past two years.
The election office for the Phoenix-area county logged "at least 140 threats and other hostile communications" between July 11 and August 22, the news outlet noted.
As Reuters reported: "The documents reveal the consequences of election conspiracy theories as voters nominated candidates in August to compete in the midterms. Many of the threats in Maricopa County, which helped propel President Joe Biden to victory over Trump in 2020, cited debunked claims around fake ballots, rigged voting machines, and corrupt election officials."
Just two weeks ago, armed individuals in Maricopa County extended the right-wing's anti-democratic intimidation campaign from election workers to voters—sitting outside a ballot drop box in the town of Mesa.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/07/you-will-all-be-executed-arizona-poll-workers-endure-right-wing-midterm-threats
KENNY STANCIL, Nov. 7, 2022
Election workers in a hotly contested Arizona county have endured more than 100 violent threats and intimidating messages leading up to Tuesday's crucial midterms, most of them based on thoroughly disproven lies about Democratic voter fraud that former President Donald Trump and his allies have repeated for the past two years.
The election office for the Phoenix-area county logged "at least 140 threats and other hostile communications" between July 11 and August 22, the news outlet noted.
As Reuters reported: "The documents reveal the consequences of election conspiracy theories as voters nominated candidates in August to compete in the midterms. Many of the threats in Maricopa County, which helped propel President Joe Biden to victory over Trump in 2020, cited debunked claims around fake ballots, rigged voting machines, and corrupt election officials."
Just two weeks ago, armed individuals in Maricopa County extended the right-wing's anti-democratic intimidation campaign from election workers to voters—sitting outside a ballot drop box in the town of Mesa.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/07/you-will-all-be-executed-arizona-poll-workers-endure-right-wing-midterm-threats
