An Iowa man has been arrested on charges that he left a pair of threatening voicemails to a local election official in Arizona and an official associated with the state attorney general's office nearly a year after the 2020 election.
, which was launched in June 2021. It has charged people in numerous states.
Rissi is alleged to have left the voicemail for Hickman last September, accusing him of lying about the fairness of the 2020 election. The board of supervisors oversees elections in the county. “No one should be subjected to this kind of hatred,” he added. “And if we truly want to keep our country great, we will do everything we can to denounce threats against election workers and combat the disinformation that imperils our democracy.”
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