It is the responsibility of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to address the threats to local and state election officials. However, the DOJ has instead admitted that the soaring number of these threats has caught it off gaurd. Mark Albert had this information in WBALTV. Here is an excerpt:

At the largest annual gathering of state election leaders, held this week in Iowa, the U.S. Department of Justice admitted it’s been caught off guard by the soaring number of physical threats to local and state election officials, and is now launching a federal task force to investigate and prosecute people who make those threats.

Since the 2020 election, “there was a greater number of election related threats than this country has ever seen before,” said John D. Keller, principal deputy chief of the Public Integrity Section at the Department of Justice.

Addressing the National Association of Secretaries of State conference, Keller acknowledged the response from the federal government so far “has been inadequate” and pledged to improve.

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