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A poll worker in Fulton County, Georgia, home of Atlanta, has gone into hiding after being falsely accused of “fraud” by internet trolls who posted his name, address, and “even information about his car” on the internet, NBC News reported on Friday, November 6, 2020.
The worker innocently discarded an instruction sheet a voter left in a ballot envelope. But it was caught on video, went viral on Twitter and Facebook, and internet trolls posted that he was corruptly throwing away ballots. The elections director called those accusations “undeniably false,” but the worker started getting threats, and couldn’t continue working.
Just another case of touchy people going off half-cocked. Read story here.
In Arizona, police have had to escort election workers to their cars because of menacing crowds of Trump supporters, some carrying guns.
Threatening someone is already a crime, but maybe threatening election workers should be a felony with stiff penalties, because a politically-motivated attack against an election worker is really an attack on the voting system itself.
Photo: Fulton County election workers at work