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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Friday, October 25th, 2024. This is the

excerpt. Today, the latest surrounding threats against election workers and other officials

plus how a gender gap is defining this election look at new polling and how the

campaigns are courting caregivers in the final stretch before

November 5th.

Threats against election workers and other public officials have moved beyond calls and

text to shootings and a bombing.

Threats that resulted in charges this week include a Philadelphia man

vowing to skin and kill a state party official

for recruiting poll watchers and an Alabama man threatening to execute

election officials in Arizona. Elsewhere an Arizona man was charged with

shootings at a Democratic Party campaign office. A California man was charged with bombing a courthouse and in a separate

incident a suspect is in custody for allegedly burning 20 electoral ballots that were inside

a mailbox in Phoenix.

Attorney General Merrick Garland said in announcing action in four cases this week,

quote, as we approach election day,

the Justice Department's warning remains clear.

Anyone who illegally threatens an election worker,

official, or volunteer will face the consequences. For a democracy to function,

Americans who serve the public must be able to do their jobs without fearing for their lives."

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