Falsehoods and death threats haunt local election workers weeks after Capitol siege
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Baseless claims of election fraud may have reached their deadly climax when a mob stormed the US Capitol. But election officials around the country said they still are coping with the bitter fallout of the 2020 election.
The abuse and threats hurled at Fulton County, Georgia, Elections Director Richard Barron and his staff in Atlanta between last year's general election and the state's high-stakes Senate runoffs on January 5 marked a new low in his 21-year career working on elections. "I used to have a sense of pride about this work," Barron told CNN. "But I don't think that I do anymore."More Related News
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