Right-wing threats against election officials

Election officials and workers have felt threatened since the 2020 presidential election and the false claims that it was stolen from former President Donald Trump. https://t.co/ANxaGmARpE
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) July 8, 2022

Election officials worry about their safety ahead of the midterms https://t.co/M92zwlcijD
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 17, 2022

A Nebraska man pleaded guilty on charges that he threatened an election official over social media last year, marking the first conviction for a Justice Dept. task force charged with protecting poll workers. https://t.co/xwJKfHaxB8
— David Nakamura (@DavidNakamura) June 16, 2022

Pretty interesting detail here:

Michigan officials won't currently say how many voting machines have been taken out of service because of unauthorized access.

The primary is less than 50 days away. https://t.co/PweGlk5zdm
— Craig Mauger (@CraigDMauger) June 15, 2022

Sadly, this is not an isolated problem, since 2020, the @BrennanCenter has documented an unprecedented spike in threats against election officials and their families. More than 1 in 6 experienced threats. And it is continuing! https://t.co/tx5XVNJTMX
— Wendy Weiser (@WendyRWeiser) June 13, 2022

New column: Dozens of 2020 election deniers are running for state offices that control elections, and the GOP that tried to block Biden's win could take over Congress. Will the Jan. 6 hearings jolt voters? And what if they don't?https://t.co/JuXX3SwUOZ @usatoday @usatodayopinion
— Jill Lawrence (@JillDLawrence) June 7, 2022

"It's an entire architecture."@HeidiReports got tapes this week detailing GOP plans to challenge future elections. It is organized, and coordinated to make "MAGA loyalists to become the worker bees of the election system." #Velshi https://t.co/T2ldV3WjMj
— Ali Velshi (@AliVelshi) June 4, 2022

Two Arizona elections officials have resigned over threats that began after the 2020 election. https://t.co/oF4oEhzSLG
— Axios (@axios) July 3, 2022

Republican plans to subvert future elections

FLAG. Video recordings of Republican Party operatives meeting with activists reveal a multi-pronged strategy to target and overturn votes in Democratic precincts: Install trained recruits as poll workers and put them in direct contact with party attorneys. https://t.co/aQ1cH0orZ4
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 1, 2022

New reporting from Politico details efforts by the Republican party on the local level to challenge and potentially overturn elections in the future.
@WmBrangham spoke with @rickhasen to better understand this strategy and what it means. https://t.co/x2wbLMyl6O pic.twitter.com/cAwDOuBotV
— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) June 1, 2022

Amazingly detailed NYT piece on yet another disturbingly organized move by conservative activists to make sure the next election results only in a GOP victory. What are Democrats doing to respond? We are heading for a democratic disaster. https://t.co/9EstceUdlg
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) May 30, 2022

The news that Cleta Mitchell (of Trump-trying-to-steal-the-election fame) is putting together a program of GOP-friendly election monitors made me think of a guy in Scranton who volunteered to do that for the 2020 election. https://t.co/SkWiIKqpoq
— Philip Bump (@pbump) May 31, 2022

True the Vote, the group behind the debunked election conspiracy film “2000 Mules,” is even controversial in GOP circles.

“I would not give her a penny,” John Fund told donors at a Council for National Policy event.

"It's true," Cleta Mitchell agreed. https://t.co/pLXVZxyYZd
— Brendan Fischer (@brendan_fischer) June 1, 2022

Architect of Trump election theft attempt is recruiting an army of conspiracy-fueled poll workers: reporthttps://t.co/UXuQrsGuT4
— Raw Story (@RawStory) May 30, 2022

The GOP is reportedly preparing to sow chaos in the 2022 election by creating an “army” of poll workers and Republican lawyers to challenge voters in Democratic precincts. https://t.co/TNj3ptV8Wm
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) June 1, 2022

Listen to the tape. It's worse than you think. They are talking about using relationships with local police, lawyers, and judges to undermine ballot counting and elections in key Democratic cities. This is the road map of a coup. https://t.co/cMY1Bejfbj
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) June 2, 2022

FWIW there’s a gigantic voter protection infrastructure in Democratic politics (as well as voter & civic groups) that mobilizes the largely left leaning legal community all over the country every year https://t.co/wNkZuJfbUO
— Jonathan Robinson (@jon_m_rob) June 2, 2022

“Eastman advised that a state legislature should concoct a fig leaf justification for declaring the correct Biden electors certified by the governor invalid and certifying Trump electors instead.” This is key to their plans for 2024:https://t.co/T6FDtJQcpk
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) May 11, 2022

At least 357 sitting GOP state legislators in battleground states have tried to discredit or overturn the 2020 election. That’s 44% of GOP state legislators in 9 states where the presidential race was closest.https://t.co/xs82k09Igr
— Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (@DLCC) May 29, 2022

Opinion | South Dakota's attack on ballot initiatives shows how the GOP subverts voters' will – The Washington Post https://t.co/gIgrmV79PS
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) June 3, 2022

GOP’s terrible proposed election police

Florida Republicans proposed a new bill this week that would create a police unit dedicated to tracking down voter fraud. https://t.co/V4SeGsz6JV
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 2, 2022

Analysis | The latest GOP idea: A police force to ferret out voter fraud https://t.co/Hwsv9xhF7V
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 23, 2022

Republican politicians are proposing to establish police forces to hunt for election crimes, a category of offenses that experts say is tiny at best. Critics warn these efforts could be used to intimidate people from registering and voting. https://t.co/KMG6iIcxBq
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) January 22, 2022

Wondering how many of these "police forces" would survive the preclearance process under the Voting Rights Act, which existed from 65 until GOP SCOTUS majority gutted it in #Shelby 2013. In 06 every Senate R voted to extend preclearance. Last week, every Senate R filibustered it https://t.co/4daIJflTZI
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) January 22, 2022

Voting rights advocates say enhanced election policing proposed by the Republican-controlled legislatures in Georgia and Florida are unnecessary and could chill participation in elections.

Here's what to know https://t.co/nm2f5twnRZ
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 15, 2022

Election subversion

Trump allies work to place supporters in key election posts across the country, spurring fears about future vote challenges https://t.co/5F0y6AZfpU
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 29, 2021

Have to agree that the focus on the Electoral Count Act seems to have come at the expense of other subversion risks.
The most serious subversion threats start much earlier in the process, with certification standing out as the key nexus pointhttps://t.co/zUmEFyaUTf
— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) October 13, 2021

This is far and away the biggest threat to the U.S. right now. https://t.co/f71tk16d1y
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) November 21, 2021

“Election subversion” — or efforts underway to contest legitimate elections — “is part of a sinister state-by-state effort by Trumpists to grab power by any means necessary,” @JohnAvlon says in today’s #RealityCheck. https://t.co/g3hLi0JVQt pic.twitter.com/ru4TT8PJ02
— New Day (@NewDay) June 29, 2021

NEW POD: @staceyabrams tells me that she hopes the For the People Act is amended to include provisions that protect against election subversion.

Full pod: https://t.co/XKW3J0awzC https://t.co/2w4JKyoiaJ
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) June 3, 2021

The pieces are falling into place for Trump and the GOP to potentially do in 2024 what they failed to do in 2020: overturn a free and fair election https://t.co/WhRRcr3ykb
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) November 29, 2021

Wisconsin Republicans are working to discredit the bipartisan system they created to run elections in the state after President Joe Biden narrowly won last year's presidential race. https://t.co/M7uF39CF36
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) November 30, 2021