A Washington state law now makes it a felony to harass election workers online — but it's unclear if it will be enough to combat the threats election officials have already started receiving in their inboxes.
a gross misdemeanor, punishable by a maximum of a year in jail and a fine of up to $5,000.After the August primary, an election worker in the Jefferson County Auditor's Office received an email they found so threatening that they went to court — and received — a restraining order against the person who sent it, court records show.
The message came from a person who had come to the office and emailed before, the county auditor, Rose Ann Carroll, told Axios. The state elections director's picture was placed in crosshairs alongside a countdown clock and the words, "your days are numbered,"Sen. David Frockt said he was appalled by the election director incident and other harassment of election workers that he saw between November 2020 and January 2021.that would have increased penalties for in-person harassment of election workers as well, that measure failed to pass.
"I had to do some serious soul searching,” the election worker said in a phone interview. "I had to talk to my spouse and my family and we had to sit down together to make sure this is a path I wanted to continue on."Of recent threats to election workers that merited further investigation, 43% came by email, while 26% came through social media, according to the FBI.
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