Threats of Violence Against Election Worker. AG Garland.

[Wandering Monk]

 

[McBell]

Spoiler: Transcript

violent threats against public servants
the ones who administer our elections
those threats endanger our democracy
itself that is why over the past three
years we have accelerated our efforts to
combat the increase in threats against
election workers officials and
volunteers that followed the 2020
election our election threats task force
has secured the guilty plea of a man who
threatened an election worker in
Michigan the defendant made vile threats
saying that the election worker deserved
a quote throat to the knife we secured a
three and a half year prison sentence
for a man in Texas who threatened the
lives of Arizona election officials and
their children and advocated for a mass
shooting of pole workers and election
workers in precincts he believed had
quote suspect
results we secured a three and a halfe
prison sentence for a Massachusetts man
for sending a bomb threat to an
elections official in the Arizona
Secretary of State's office we secured a
two-year prison sentence for a man in
Texas who threatened Georgia officials
in the wake of the 2020 election
including threatening toot quote put a
bullet behind the ears of an election
worker and we secured a 2 and a2e
sentence in prison for an Iowa man who
threatened to Lynch an election official
in
Arizona each of these cases should serve
as a warning if you threaten to harm or
kill an election worker volunteer or
official the justice department will
find you and we will hold you
accountable
the public servants who administer our
elections must be able to do their jobs
without fearing for their safety or that
of their families we will aggressively
investigate and prosecute those who
threaten election
workers protecting the right to vote was
a founding purpose of the justice
department today fulfilling that charge
means confronting the full range of
threats to our elections that includes
continu our work through this task force
our us attorney's offices and our FBI
offices across the country to
investigate disrupt and combat unlawful
threats against those who administer our
elections it includes the Civil Rights
division's essential work to enforce
Federal voting rights laws and to
challenge discriminatory restrictions on
access to the ballot it includes the
work of the criminal division's public
Integrity section and are you us
attorney's offices to investigate and
prosecute election crimes and it
includes our national security divisions
and the FBI's work to protect our
elections from National Security threats
including malign foreign influence and
cyber enabled
campaigns the justice department
recognizes the urgency of these threats
and we are prepared to confront them we
will continue continue to protect
people's safety and we will continue to
protect our
democracy I want to close by expressing
gratitude to the election workers across
the country who ensure that the promise
of our democracy is made real I
recognize that your work has become more
difficult and dangerous these past few
years I also want to express my
gratitude to the members of this task
force and to its leader John Keller for
your Devotion to this critical mission
and I'm grateful as always to the brave
men and women of the FBI for their work
and thank you also to The Postal
inspection service and to the Department
of Homeland Security our partners in our
efforts to prot protect elections and
election
workers together we promise that the
justice department will be relentless in
defending the right to vote and in
defending the safety of the public
servants who make voting possible I now
I like to ask the deputy Attorney
General

 

[ChristineM]

This, or a summary needs to be aired on TV before or after any election broadcast. The only way to reduce this threat is to let people know they will end up in prison.

 

[tytlyf]

I wonder who would have gave these people the idea to hate election workers?

 

[Secret Chief]

I wonder who would have gave these people the idea to hate election workers?

Does it begin with D?

 

[F1fan]

This, or a summary needs to be aired on TV before or after any election broadcast. The only way to reduce this threat is to let people know they will end up in prison.

I doubt FOX would agree to cover it. I worry about more disinformation and more conservatives being misled about the election. The one case Trump won in the post 2020 election was more recount observers and they could be closer to the counting. If mobs of Trump "observers" show up at poll locations and voters feel intimidated, will it be allowed? I understand there are rules, like no one can campaign within so many feet of a poll location, but if a voter or "observer" is wearing a Trump 2024 T-shirt is it free speech or campaigning? If 50 "observers" are outside a polling location with Trump shirts, is that allowed?

I have no doubt that MAGAs are trying to figure out ways to skirt the laws.

 

[Pogo]

I doubt FOX would agree to cover it. I worry about more disinformation and more conservatives being misled about the election. The one case Trump won in the post 2020 election was more recount observers and they could be closer to the counting. If mobs of Trump "observers" show up at poll locations and voters feel intimidated, will it be allowed? I understand there are rules, like no one can campaign within so many feet of a poll location, but if a voter or "observer" is wearing a Trump 2024 T-shirt is it free speech or campaigning? If 50 "observers" are outside a polling location with Trump shirts, is that allowed?

I have no doubt that MAGAs are trying to figure out ways to skirt the laws.

In NYS it is 100 ft from the polling place. doesn't preclude a mob beyond that.
Candidates may have 3 watchers designated per polling place but only one at a time actually in the polling place.
They are not allowed within 6 ft. of the voting privacy screens.
They may question signatures, residence, multiple votes, eligibility.
Election inspectors get to rule according to procedure, there are two of us, one Republican and one Democrat If we agree on signature and residence then they vote, otherwise, we suggest affidavit ballot which will be adjudicated and counted later if significant.
There is also a judge on call who can kick them out it they are to much of a PITA.

As a Republican inspector in a very mixed area, as Jerry said prematurely, I will get by.

 

[Soandso]

Does it begin with D?

It's a mystery

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

Does it begin with D?

Don't go any further! I get the DTs just hearing the name...

 

[Twilight Hue]

Does it begin with D?

Duce!