Probably the most chilling foreshadowing of what continuing Trump thuggery means for states:

[kpete]

It should frighten us beyond anything we’ve learned, that she and her mother (and every heroic election worker) are gone.

#Schiff: How many you worked with are still election workers in Fulton County today?

#Moss: There is no worker that is still there.

#January6thCommitteeHearings #January6thHearings

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[Evolve Dammit]

1. Domestic terrorism is what it is. They want people afraid to vote.

[uponit7771]

2. Everyone of the workers who even feel a little bit moved by what Putin's Whore did should be able

... to testify against him in a lawsuit and his intimidation trail.

Fuck him, every damn word that is prosecutable against him should be used until he's dead a lot

[SouthernDem4ever]

3. +111111

completely agree.

[Novara]

5. There's got to be something they can charge him with

He has literally ruined people's lives. Damages for slander aren't enough. There's got to be incitement or something.

Can any lawyers among us weigh in?

Doxxing people needs to be prosecutable.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

14. I'm wondering the same thing.

How can so many of these thugs & criminals get off Scott free? It's a goddamn travesty. I'm especially disturbed by how Shaye Moss has been affected.

Looks like PTSD. Inflicted on her by racist, fascist thugs. All because she was doing a civic, public good, of which she was rightfully proud. Now she's been stripped of something that was a not-insignificant part of her identity. And she questions everything she does. The people involved in the instigation of and the harassment she's suffered ought to be in jail.

[LittleGirl]

23. I was looking at her swollen neck

Trauma can cause undiscovered thyroid disease to surface.

She has all the signs, swollen neck, 60 lb weight gain, moon face, depression and PTSD from the trauma. I hope a good doctor can treat her so she’ll feel better. Her Mother too.

[MontanaMama]

4. The reign of terror has been successful. nt

[catbyte]

6. Shades of Brown Shirt tactics of early 1930s Germany.

And I'm not exaggerating.

[hadEnuf]

9. You are absolutely correct.

[Haru]

7. A true patriot

We need to get good people to help in elections
We need to protect those involved in staging the election process
We need to have laws that we protect our democracy

[70sEraVet]

8. Election workers need federal protection. Harassing or intimidating these people

should bring quick FBI response and harsh sentencing. They are front-line workers for our democracy!

[hadEnuf]

11. The entire voting and certifying apparatus is being sabotaged in swing states as we type.

Huge voter turnout plus the revelations about Trump's stolen election lies will give Americans something to fight with when these right wing states start rejecting election results in favor of their Trump loving fascists.

[NullTuples]

29. In 2016 the GOP was just getting warmed up...

And yet there were states where they blocked 30 times more people from voting than Trump's margin of victory.

They've had six years to work on their techniques. I fear "get out the vote" may not be sufficient. Especially in states where gerrymandering has gone through and there's zero chance of Democrats representing voters regardless of voter turnout.

[ZonkerHarris]

10. GOP wins that battle. Driving them out was the goal

[Lonestarblue]

12. And all of the people who did their jobs honestly have been replaced with Republican crooks.

Republicans have ensured that people without scruples who will ensure that they win. Even id the votes are not there.

[BWdem4life]

13. Was she a permanent worker?

Most election workers are temporary workers - at least that’s how it is in my county, don’t see why it would be different in most other places.

[Novara]

15. I believe she was a longtime elections worker, not temporary

But what's more chilling is that when asked, she said that none of her co-workers are left. They're being replaced by fascist thugs.

I love what I do for a living. I can't imagine how I'd feel if someone threatened me to the point where I could no longer work in my field anymore. It would feel like part of me was ripped away.

She's been terrorized. She was blaming herself for bringing on the fascists threatening her family. There's gotta be something prosecutable in all that.

[soldierant]

27. It wasn't spelled out, but my

understanding based on my own experience as a poll worker was that she was full-time and Lady Ruby was hired just for the elections (and paid a flat rate which has to cover the time spent in training as well - usually 2-4 hours in an evening.) I could of course be wrong.

[live love laugh]

16. "...no worker still there...": the path has been cleared.

It should be easy breezy to pull off shenanigans this election cycle.

[2Gingersnaps]

21. This is truly the cost of letting that mobster halfwit continue,

Just like Officer Harry Dunn, just average working people going about their business, working their job, doing their duty. It was BAD when it started with Sally Yates trying to warn him about Michael Flynn. He knew Flynn was corrupt, that is what he WANTED. And all along the way there has been some civil servant doing the job the taxpayers pay them to do, that only failed in their fealty to a criminal thug.

Remember Chris Ktebs? The CISA Director working for DHS, Republican whose job was to guarantee the safest, surest election in history? He did that job, fired Nov. 17, because it conflicted with Trump's lie. The FBI agents who did their job were removed, in favor of the ones who would not thoroughly investigate Brett Kavanaugh. And on, and on, and on.

All of these people stepped on for the nerve of having a scruple and being in the path of the anointed one.

"Swearing is offensive to some." "It can be stated with more impact without that." Hmm. Fuck that. and fuck him. Prison, just in case hell really is a fable.

[flying_wahini]

22. As a former poll worker I keep hoping that more young people will step up.

Almost all of us are over 55ish. It’s rare to see anyone under 40.
Makes me think they just don’t care.

[LittleGirl]

24. Good question but how many can take a Tuesday

in November off work? Voting workers work 14 hour days. I’d volunteer but I can’t work that long. Never could.

[MissB]

25. My oldest volunteers

He is in grad school, so he has the time.

[LisaM]

26. I did it.

I took a vacation day from my regular job to work elections. I worked elections all through my twenties.

I also did it as a college student. It was really good pay, too.

I think it's true younger people don't want to work elections. To a large extent, they don't support in-person voting. We don't have in-person voting in Washington any more. I think our elections are secure, but I miss going to the polls.

[soldierant]

28. I've never worked anywhre that objected to my taking time off to work an election day,

or having to leave early for poll worker training. In fact, those employers appeared to be proud of it.

I suppose that's changed too. Sigh.

[winetourdriver01]

30. You're right..

The republicans are finished with elections they know they can no longer win. The goal now is to wreck the whole process. They won't stop until they are in charge of an authoritarian regime resembling Putin's Russia.