'This has to stop': Harassed and threatened, GOP election officials urge party leaders to take stand

that a Georgia poll worker had gone into hiding after viral video suggested he was disposing of a ballot, when in fact he was disposing of paper instructions.

Asked by reporters about the threats faced by Georgia's election workers during a briefing Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said"we condemn any threats against anyone. There's no place for violence." She said that the president's lawyers, who have brought a frenzied and failing legal effort to reverse the results of the election, had also been harassed.Public officials have"really been the subject of relentless attacks including death threats and that raises the cost of performing public service. I’m worried this will deter qualified Americans," Wendy Weiser, vice president of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law, said.

Former Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson, a Republican, said Wednesday at a press briefing hosted by the National Task Force on Election Crises that election officials often prefer to stay out of the limelight, but that the threats were particularly upsetting after a difficult election year. “We have an underfunded system of election and we had an incredibly taxing election this year and we had the best election we’ve ever had,” he said. “The fact that folks who are volunteering or not getting paid very much are receiving death threats is horrible and it really bothers me because the threats are coming from my political party, it really offends me.”

Good for him. He should become the majority speaker of the (R) Senate. Trump is not moved by the mans genuine words.

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