Kono now finds herself fielding questions about what to do when approached by suspicious voters who ask provocative questions or gripe about fraud. She's added an entire training section dedicated to identifying threats and how to report them. "I never in a million years imagined that that would be part of my curriculum," she told me.
Around the country, election officials have already received death threats and packages filled with white powder. Their dogs have been poisoned, their homes swatted, their family members targeted.
Al Schmidt, the secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, told me-to get you to "stop counting votes, or we're going to murder your children, and they name your children," a threat that Schmidt said he received in 2020.
The point is coercion; the point is intimidation. It's to get you to do or not do something. One man called for a "mass shooting of poll workers and election officials" in precincts with results he found suspicious.
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