'It's absolutely getting worse': Secretaries of state targeted by Trump election lies live in fear..

[Nevilledog]

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Edward-Isaac Dovere
@IsaacDovere
NEW from me and @jeremyherb: secretaries of state around the country are living in fear, as threats from those convinced by Trump's election lies mount - and they don't see nearly enough being done to secure them on the state or federal level

'It's absolutely getting worse': Secretaries of state targeted by Trump election lies live in fear...
"I am a hunter -- and I think you should be hunted," a woman can be heard saying in a voicemail left for Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs in September. "You will never be safe in Arizona again."
cnn.com
11:17 AM · Oct 26, 2021

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/26/politics/secretaries-of-state-personal-threats-trump-election-lies/index.html

(CNN) — "I am a hunter -- and I think you should be hunted," a woman can be heard saying in a voicemail left for Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs in September. "You will never be safe in Arizona again."

Or there's the man who spit, "Die you bitch, die! Die you bitch, die!" repeatedly into the phone, in another of several dozen threatening and angry voicemails directed at the Democratic secretary of state and shared exclusively with CNN by her office.

Officials and aides in secretary of state offices in Arizona and other states targeted by former President Donald Trump in his attack on last year's election results told CNN about living in constant terror -- nervously watching the people around them at events, checking in their rearview mirrors for cars following them home and sitting up at night wondering what might happen next.

Law enforcement has never had to think much about protecting secretaries of state, let alone allocating hundreds of thousands of dollars in security, tracking and follow-up. Their jobs used to be mundane, unexciting, bureaucratic. These are small offices in a handful of states with enormous power in administering elections, from mailing ballots to overseeing voting machines to keeping track of counted votes.

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[Walleye]

1. I guess they are not being protected by their state authorities. Time to call in the despised Feds

[Haggard Celine]

2. These fuckers are unhinged, rabid animals!

They need to make sure the officials' phones can tell where the calls are coming from and they need to methodically go after each caller and jail them until they're tried. This shit cannot be allowed to continue.

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Traitor Trump is a NAZI

Violence to achieve political goals is terrorism.

[Initech]

4. I really wish he'd just drop dead.

And I hate to say that about anyone, but really, fuck him and his stupid election.

[texasfiddler]

5. Until these people are prosecuted, convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison. It continues

This is ridiculous.

[Septua]

6. I'm assuming they are anonymous...

..so prosecution isn't an option. And I'm not sure the mentioned examples would be criminally chargeable.

https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/crime-penalties/federal/Criminal-Threats.htm

The anonymous assholes calling and making the "threats" are in fact, bullies and cowards, like Trump. Certainly, some of them likely would do bodily harm to one of their victims. But a lot of them are all mouth lacking the guts to make themselves known.

But they are accomplishing their objectives. If they scare off all the honest, patriotic officials who averted the Jan 6 coup, then they will become the dishonest, treasonous officials who make the next attempt successful...