Posted on 10/25/2024 6:44:13 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
With less than two weeks until Election Day, law enforcement officials are confronting a rising wave of threats to election workers and political activists in a presidential contest hurtling toward a bitterly contentious coda and a potentially unsettled aftermath.
On Monday, the Justice Department unsealed a complaint against a man in Philadelphia who had vowed to skin alive and kill a party official recruiting volunteer poll watchers. On Tuesday, the police in Tempe, Ariz., arrested a man in connection with shootings at a Democratic campaign office, which resulted in no injuries, and other acts of political vandalism.
On Wednesday, prosecutors charged a 61-year-old man from Tampa, Fla., with threatening an election official — on top of pending charges over menacing messages sent in the past five years. And on Thursday, police officers in Phoenix arrested a person in connection with a mailbox fire, damaging some 20 ballots in a Democratic stronghold.
Law enforcement’s task this year goes far beyond the relatively straightforward job of providing physical security — to the essential mission of safeguarding the election from individuals and groups who want to instill fear and uncertainty, even if they never resort to violence.
Political battlegrounds are taking on the sobering characteristics of actual ones. Drones, barriers and snipers are expected to be deployed at some offices and polling sites. Bulletproof glass and armed security patrols are becoming increasingly commonplace everywhere.
“The fact that election workers need to be worried about their security is incomprehensible and unacceptable,” Christopher A. Wray, the director of the F.B.I., said in a statement on Wednesday after the Justice Department released an update on threats to election workers and political activists.
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False-flag in 5, 4, 3,...
If President Trump has a list of people to fire on Day One I’d certainly put Wray first. But deadbolt the office door first, it’ll make for more fun. And number two will be that liar Rowe who took over for Cheatle in the SS.
I actually think this could be a good thing. If the level of scrutiny increases, it will be more difficult for the dems to cheat and steal elections.
Death threats and shot up offices are common for republicans during election season. The times didn’t care about political violence until they thought it might give their fraudsters cold feet.
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