From frivolous records requests to outright harassment, democracy’s administrators are facing “death by a thousand cuts,” says one voting rights advocate: “The problem is that, in aggregate, it really starts to tear at the fabric of our election system.
Deeley, then the chair of the Philadelphia board of commissioners, was subjected to threats from Trump’s supporters that for a time required her to have a security detail. “It was the most unbelievable experience,” Deeley told me. “It should never happen.” Her account is, of course, just one frame in America’s never-ending feature of election chaos.
” America got a taste of those circumstances on January 6, 2021, as months of “rigged election” conspiracy theories, harassment of election officials , and underhanded schemes to overturn Trump’s election loss gave way to violent insurrection.
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