Saturday, November 02, 2024

Election Officials Have Boosted Security Since 2020

After the polls closed in November 2020, Americans witnessed an unprecedented intersection of violent threats and voting.

Posted by lamplighter at 08:31 PM | 8 COMMENTS | permalink

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... These incidents, along with death threats targeting election workers, have led local officials to increase their election security plans through Nov. 5 and, if necessary, beyond.

An overwhelming majority -- 92 percent -- of surveyed local election officials said they had taken steps to increase security for voters, election workers and election infrastructure. ...



#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-01 02:29 PM

Another view...

US Election Threats Cost Local Governments Millions in Security
www.bnnbloomberg.ca

... With threats to election officials on the rise since 2020, local governments have been spending millions of dollars to increase protections for voters, poll workers, ballots and equipment. ...

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-01 02:30 PM

Election officials have boosted security since 2020

That sounds like famous last words.

In any event, too bad about the insurrectionist traitor who stands a 50% chance of winning the election.

#3 | Posted by censored at 2024-11-01 02:33 PM

This is funny.

If you vote illegally, its tabulated regardless of you not being able to vote, and there's nothing they can do about it.

Yet America makes it incredibly easy to vote regardless of status.

Just don't get caught, few if any do get caught. America has no idea of the status of its voters.

Incredible.

#4 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-11-01 02:37 PM

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...Shatterproof glass, panic buttons and armed security: Preparing poll sites

Urban battleground election offices are not the only places that have increased security.

More than 9,000 local jurisdictions administer elections nationwide, ranging from small townships to cities with more than 1 million voters. The 2024 Brennan Center for Justice survey found that 40 percent of respondents had enhanced physical security of election offices or polling places since 2020. ...

Kathy Boockvar, secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania during the 2020 election, said more jurisdictions nationwide have added panic buttons to contact law enforcement since 2020. Boockvar is a member of the Committee for Safe and Secure Elections, a group that trains election office workers.

Other steps taken by election offices include adding materials on windows to make them shatterproof and hiring armed security at vote counting sites. Some offices have also added tighter identification requirements before entering a vote tabulation center. ...


#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-01 04:30 PM

@#4 ... This is funny. ...

There is nothing funny about the need to beef up security for election officials because of possible threats.

Or, does your current alias find election violence funny?

Please explain.



#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-02 09:41 PM

Hmmm? I wonder why? Because of all the murdering, raoing illrgal aliens? Or, more likely, because of the MAGAterrorists who could try to pull off another coup attempt and the MAGAterrorists would actually murder her, especially if she wins election!

#7 | Posted by danni at 2024-11-02 11:28 PM

It's because of the domestic terrorist threat posed by very fine people

#8 | Posted by hamburglar at 2024-11-02 11:42 PM

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