Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat viewed as a national leader in voting rights, has received 67 death threats and over 900 threats of online abuse within just three weeks, according to a system used by her office that tracks harassment and threats against election workers.
In 2020, Griswold’s office launched a “rapid response” election security unit, a team of election security experts tasked with protecting Colorado’s elections from cyber-attacks, foreign interference and disinformation campaigns. A year later, her office set up a tracker to monitor the growing number of threats against election workers.
Griswold told Salon that “if anybody understands” what election workers around the country “are going through, it’s me.” She continued, “Everything that we have done for my security, we have had to fight tooth and nail for. State and federal governments have largely abandoned election workers. I understand what these county clerks are going through and I’ll do anything I possibly can to ease their burden and make sure that […]
Election integrity is one of the most fundamental priorities in a republic. The funding and support of Election infrastructure, as in other physical infrastructure, has been lacking for many years and we have not caught up. We, as a society, have been taking this infrastructure for granted, at our own peril. We can, and must, do more to insure that the mechanisms of all elections are free and fair. Sadly, as the article indicates, this has not been a priority on the State and Federal levels.