Report Recounts Chilling Threats To Election Workers

August 15, 2022 Republicans, Trump cultists

The Texas Tribune reports:

A rise in election-related misinformation has led to increased threats and intimidation of election workers in Texas and other states, according to a report released by a U.S. House committee.

A Texas elections administrator from Tarrant County told the committee there was a social media call to “hang him when convicted for fraud and let his lifeless body hang in public until maggots drip out of his mouth.” The official’s home address was leaked and he received messages threatening his children, including one that said “I think we should end your bloodline.”

That official, Heider Garcia, was the target of a smear campaign by allies of former President Donald Trump and prominent right-wing media personalities, purporting a falsehood that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him due to widespread voter fraud.

USA Today reports:



“What we heard is chilling. Election officials are under siege. They face growing campaigns of harassment and threats, all driven by false accusations of fraud,” said Democratic U.S. Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, D-N.Y., who chairs the House committee overseeing the investigation, in a statement.

Maloney said Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Roger Stone, a one-time adviser to former President Trump, and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who pushes debunked election conspiracy theories, had singled out one Florida election administrator following the 2020 election.

She said they publicized his office phone number and encouraged listeners to call with the message that, ‘“they are watching him” and that, quote, “he is a piece of crap.”’ Maloney didn’t name the Florida elections official.

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