Election workers fear threats and intimidation without feds' support in 2026

[RandySF]

Bill Gates, an Arizona election official and former Maricopa County supervisor, says that the death threats started shortly after the 2020 presidential election.

"That's when we became pariahs within the Republican Party because we were not willing to sign on to this whole election-being-stolen narrative," Gates, a life-long Republican, told The Register, describing the online and real-life harassment and violence he and other supervisors faced.

A few months later, on January 6, 2021, as armed rioters stormed the US Capitol building, "was the first time that we were instructed by the sheriff to leave the house," Gates remembered. "We had been doxxed at the point."

So Gates and his family spent two nights in hiding.



https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/16/election_workers_fears_after_cisa_cuts/

[SSJVegeta]

1. States need to amp up the level of protections and security for their workers

Not only will the federal government likely not support them, they will likely be complicit in the intimidation.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. The piece of shit's gonna send in the military anywhere Democrats vote anyway

I’m assuming or should say hoping everyone reading this understands that we probably won’t have elections anymore certainly not ones that we can vote in or where our votes will be counted.

I hope everyone’s preparing for that.