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You are here: Home / Democracy in America / Violent Threats to Election Workers Are Common. Prosecutions are Not

Violent Threats to Election Workers Are Common. Prosecutions are Not

June 28, 2022 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

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Violent Threats to Election Workers Are Common. Prosecutions are NotEver since the former President started his pushing his “big lie” election workers have faced several threats but prosecutions have hardly followed. This article by Michael Wines, is published by New York Times. Here is an excerpt:

In August, 42-year-old Travis Ford of Lincoln, Neb., posted those words on the personal Instagram page of Jena Griswold, the secretary of state and chief election official of Colorado. In a post 10 days later, Mr. Ford told Ms. Griswold that her security detail was unable to protect her, then added:

“This world is unpredictable these days … anything can happen to anyone.”

Mr. Ford paid dearly for those words. Last week, in U.S. District Court in Lincoln, he pleaded guilty to making a threat with a telecommunications device, a felony that can carry up to two years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

But a year after Attorney General Merrick B. Garland established the federal Election Threats Task Force, almost no one else has faced punishment. Two other cases are being prosecuted, but Mr. Ford’s guilty plea is the only case the task force has successfully concluded out of more than 1,000 it has evaluated.

Public reports of prosecutions by state and local officials are equally sparse, despite an explosion of intimidating and even violent threats against election workers, largely since former President Donald J. Trump began spreading the lie that fraud cost him the 2020 presidential election.

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Filed Under: Democracy in America Tagged With: American State Elections, Election Security

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