'It feels very much like predatory behavior and that we are being stalked,' the Maricopa elections director recently told county officials.
"It feels very much like predatory behavior and that we are being stalked," the Maricopa elections director recently told county officials.Election workers in a hotly contested Arizona county have endured more than 100 violent threats and intimidating messages leading up to Tuesday's crucial midterms, most of them based on thoroughly disproven lies about Democratic voter fraud that former President Donald Trump and his allies have repeated ad nauseam for the past two years.
"The harassment in Maricopa County included menacing emails and social media posts, threats to circulate personal information online, and photographing employees arriving at work,"Sunday, citing nearly 1,600 pages of documents it obtained through a public records request. "You will all be executed," reads one."Wire around their limbs and tied & dragged by a car," says another.reported:"The documents reveal the consequences of election conspiracy theories as voters nominated candidates in August to compete in the midterms. Many of the threats in Maricopa County, which helped propel President Joe Biden to victory over Trump in 2020, cited debunked claims around fake ballots, rigged voting machines, and corrupt election officials.
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