Attorney General Merrick B. Garland says the Biden Justice Department is putting “intense focus” on growing and persistent threats to election workers across the country.
Mr. Garland held a virtual meeting Thursday night with more than 1,400 election officials and workers to discuss the threats, which he said are “a problem that will not wait.”
“It is a problem that is the subject of intense focus by the highest levels of the Department of Justice,” he said. “Only by protecting those who administer the election process can we ensure that the right to vote, itself, is protected.”
The attorney general in June said he was committed to expanding the department’s efforts to protect voting rights and to investigate and prosecute any violations of federal law.
Mr. Garland reiterated his previous comments that “the dramatic increase in menacing and violent threats against all manner of state and local election workers, ranging from the highest administrators to volunteer poll workers … [undermines] our electoral process.”
A survey released in April by the Brennan Center for Justice found one in three election officials feel unsafe because of their job and nearly one in five said threats to their lives were a job-related concern.
The Election Threats Task Force, created in June, is collaborating with federal agencies to “better understand and deter threats to elections,” Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco said.
Mr. Garland said officials are “under no illusions that our...
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