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Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Friday, November 1st, 2024.

This is the excerpt.

Today, how officials are preparing for possible violence ahead of Tuesday, close to take a look at some of the latest polling and how crucial is the college vote

in this year's election. Ahead of Election Day, officials are preparing for protests and possible violence.

I spoke with USA Today, Senior National Political Correspondent Sarah DeWire for more.

Sarah, thanks for wrapping on today.

Thanks for having me.

So Sarah, how have threats against election workers really grown more violent?

What are some of the things we've been seeing?

You know, we've seen this especially over the last four years. There are threats to election offices.

In the last few months, we've seen offices receive white powder in the mail.

We've seen videos on social media or arrests happen because people appear at the polls and punch out a poll worker because they're told they have to take their hat off because it has a, you know, Trump sign on it.

We've also seen that a lot of election offices have been really preparing for this because poll workers have been worried to work the polls this year after hearing at all of these threats.

Yeah, so as you say, officials are preparing for threats of violence, for general protests,

for all kinds of things ahead of Tuesday. And it's clear, Sarah, that a focal point is on

central ballot counting locations. What's the importance of keeping those locations safe and

how are officials preparing?

Most people probably have no idea what a central balloting location is.

And there's no reason that they should.

This is an important part of the routine of counting our ballots, but it's not something that is widely known.

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