More Action Is Needed To Protect Election Workers

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

A group of Senate Democrats sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) urging the agency to take more action to protect election workers, citing "an ongoing barrage of threats and abusive conduct."

Posted by retort at 02:50 PM | 11 COMMENTS | permalink

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Kamal proposes free carpal tunnel wrist braces for workers filling in or correcting Democrat mail in ballots.

#1 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-08-14 03:07 PM

treat them like doj employees till the job is done and in some cases afterwards.

They shouldn't ever feel threatened for doing their job right.

#2 | Posted by Tor at 2024-08-14 03:22 PM

#1 | Posted by visitor_

BOR-ING

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-08-14 03:26 PM

Let election workers openly carry firearms on the job. Nothing says do as I say' like a middle aged African American woman with a job to do and a .45 ...

#4 | Posted by catdog at 2024-08-14 07:24 PM

@#1 ... Kamal proposes free carpal tunnel wrist braces for workers filling in or correcting Democrat mail in ballots. ...

What's your point?

I mean really.

What's your point?

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-14 10:02 PM

@#4 ... Let election workers openly carry firearms on the job. ...

Two concerns...

1) I am not yet convinced that all election workers would want to carry a firearm. That seems to be so contrary to their job at hand.

2) why have we apparently come to this point in the conversation about election workers? Firearms? Why?

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-14 10:04 PM

Election workers are being bombarded with death threats, the U.S. government says (2023)
www.pbs.org

... More than a dozen people nationally have been charged with threatening election workers by a Justice Department unit trying to stem the tide of violent and graphic threats against people who count and secure the vote.

Government employees are being bombarded with threats even in normally quiet periods between elections, secretaries of state and experts warn. Some point to former President Donald Trump and his allies repeatedly and falsely claiming the 2020 election was stolen and spreading conspiracy theories about election workers. Experts fear the 2024 election could be worse and want the Justice Department to do more to protect election workers. ...

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-14 10:14 PM

Let election workers openly carry firearms on the job.

Yeah, that oughtta calm things down.

No, the answer to cancer isn't more cancer.

Make the penalties clear and potent. There is no reason people doing a thankless job should be targeted.

Penalties should also apply for those that disseminate personal information in an attempt to intimidate or harass the worker.

#8 | Posted by zarnon at 2024-08-14 11:13 PM

@#8 ... There is no reason people doing a thankless job should be targeted. ...

Worth restating, in bold.

There is no reason people doing a thankless job should be targeted.

#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-14 11:17 PM

"What's your point?"