IT’S NOT ONLY ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS:
ELECTION OFFICIALS PLAN TO PROTECT WORKERS AGAINST VIOLENCE.
Summary
Election officials across the country are taking unprecedented security measures to protect workers and ensure the safety of voting and ballot-counting processes. These measures include panic buttons, bulletproof glass, increased law enforcement presence, and enhanced training. The focus on security comes after a rise in threats of political violence and harassment targeting election officials, particularly following the 2020 presidential election.
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“Have Trump and Vance crossed the line into Federal Hate Crimes by using their campaign rhetoric to violently target the legal Haitian community in Springfield Ohio? Michael Popok examines and recommends that the DOJ warn the Proud Boys and other violent extremists that if they touch a hair on the Haitian community, they will be prosecuted.”
What the Washington Post left out was that Trump spewed HATE AND FEAR AT HIS POLITICAL RALLIES.
“He had built his political brand by entertaining massive crowds, appearing at outdoor rallies, UFC fights and college football games, often wading through throngs of adoring fans.”
“Events have taken far longer to plan because of limited resources. Bulletproof glass now boxes him in at outdoor events. Campaign officials have been warned by the government about the possibility of poisoning threats that could target the former president. His team has gotten nervous about drones targeting him at golf courses and at outdoor venues after hearing briefings from the Secret Service. He has been warned of the perils of playing golf, with some of his courses now off limits.”
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The Washington Post
How the Trump campaign has been forced to adapt to assassination threats
The situation has caused a grim mood on the campaign, as the once freewheeling candidate is hemmed in by new constraints.
September 18, 2024 at 5:00 a.m. EDT
IT'S SO EASY TO COMPARE TRUMP WITH HITLER. THE MAIN DIFFERENCE IS HITLER FILMS ARE BLACK & WHITE AND TRUMP'S FILMS ARE IN COLOR.Just like Trump, Joseph Goebbels exaggerated:
In the Sportpalast.
"When the British Air Force drops two or three or four thousand kilograms of bombs, then we will in one night drop 150, 230, 300 or 400,000 kilograms. When they declare they will increase their attacks on our cities, then we will raze their cities to the ground. We will stop the handiwork of those night air pirates, so help us God! The hour will come when one of us will break and it will not be National Socialist Germany!"[34][35][36][37]
”TRUMP’S POLITICAL BRAND IS HATE AND FEAR. ADOLF HITLER’S POLITICAL BRAND WAS HATE AND FEAR.
No fewer than 42 assassination plots against Adolf Hitler have been uncovered by historians:
Assassination attempts on Adolf Hitler
Assassination attempt number 41 VALKYRIE A dramatization of the July 20, 1944 assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Adolf Hitler during World War II.
IT’S NOT ONLY ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS:
ELECTION OFFICIALS PLAN TO PROTECT WORKERS AGAINST VIOLENCE.
Summary
Election officials across the country are taking unprecedented security measures to protect workers and ensure the safety of voting and ballot-counting processes. These measures include panic buttons, bulletproof glass, increased law enforcement presence, and enhanced training. The focus on security comes after a rise in threats of political violence and harassment targeting election officials, particularly following the 2020 presidential election.
By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY
Updated 5:31 PM EDT, September 17, 2024
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — The election director in Cobb County, an Atlanta suburb where votes will be fiercely contested in this year’s presidential race, recently organized a five-hour training session. The focus wasn’t solely on the nuts and bolts of running this year’s election. Instead, it brought together election staff and law enforcement to strategize on how to keep workers safe and the process of voting and ballot-counting secure.
Having a local sheriff’s deputy at early voting locations and panic buttons that connect poll managers to a local 911 dispatcher are among the added security steps the office is taking this year.
Tate Fall, Cobb County’s election director, said she was motivated to act after hearing one of her poll workers describe being confronted during the state’s presidential primary in March by an agitated voter who the worker noticed was carrying a gun. The situation ended peacefully, but the poll worker was shaken.
“That made it really real for me — that it’s so easy for something to go sideways in life, period, let alone the environment of Georgia and elections,” Fall said. “I just can’t have someone being harmed on my conscience.”
Across the country, local election directors are beefing up their security in advance of Election Day on Nov. 5 to keep their workers and polling places safe while also ensuring that ballots and voting procedures won’t be tampered with. Their concern isn’t just theoretical. Election offices and those who run them have been targets of harassment and even death threats since the 2020 presidential election, primarily by people acting on former President Donald Trump’s lies that the election was stolen from him through widespread fraud or rigged voting machines.
The focus on security comes as threats of political violence have been on the rise. Trump was the target of a potential assassination attempt over the weekend, just nine weeks after another threat on his life. Federal agents last year fatally shot a Trump supporter who threatened to assassinate President Joe Biden, and the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was severely injured in a hammer attack by a man promoting right-wing conspiracy theories.
In just the last year, a gun was fired at a window of the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, election office, bogus 911 calls were made to the homes of top state election officials in Georgia, Maine, Michigan and Missouri in a potentially dangerous situation known as swatting, and election offices in multiple states were sent letters filled with a white powder that in some cases tested positive for the powerful opioid fentanyl. On Tuesday, the FBI and U.S. Postal Service said they were investigating suspicious packages received by election officials in at least a dozen states, although there was no indication any of them contained hazardous substances.
“This is one of the things that I have to say is just crazy, outrageous to me — the election threats to workers of both parties and their families, the bullying, the harassment,” Jen Easterly, director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, said during a recent agency-sponsored online event. “These folks, they are not doing it for pay. They’re not doing it for glory. They’re doing it because they believe it’s the right thing to do to defend our democracy.”
Her agency has completed more than 1,000 voluntary physical security assessments for election offices since the start of 2023. Election officials have been using that help to identify gaps and request money from their local governments to make upgrades.
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Summary
The article discusses the alarming rise of political violence and fearmongering bigotry in the United States. The article highlights two recent assassination attempts on former President Donald Trump and the dangerous consequences of baseless claims made by Trump and his allies, such as the false accusation of Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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