Georgia election officials and police prepare for voting dangers

“We’re not trying to make you really paranoid; we’re trying to make you a little paranoid and to plan for worst-case scenarios,” said Chris Harvey, a former Georgia elections director who now oversees law enforcement training. “Hopefully it will not grow and get worse than it did in 2020, but I think there’s a chance it will.” The threat to elections and election workers isn’t theoretical. In an article published last fall in the publication Lawfare, counterterrorism researchers Pete Simi and Seamus Hughes wrote that more than 500 people across...