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The Justice Department announced developments in four cases involving domestic threats

to election workers.

Two individuals pleaded guilty or were sentenced to prison time for threatening election officials

in Arizona, a state that became a hotbed of conspiracies

after former President Donald Trump spread lies about the 2020 election results there.

Now in 2024, election officials in Maricopa County, Arizona are preparing for round

two.

Our White House correspondent, Laura Barone Lopez, has this report from Phoenix, Arizona.

Those are the high-speed Dominion tabulators.

Stephen Richard is ready for this election.

The average Maricopa County ballot will have about 80 contests on it.

The Maricopa County recorder, who runs mail-in voting and maintains voter

registration says he's ready for processing 2 million absentee ballots and for

signature verification. But he's also ready for the backlash.

We're very aware of the fact that Arizona could be one of the, if not the last state

waiting to be called.

And if you say it's all coming down to Arizona,

then you can bet that whatever emotion

was already baked into the equation is going to be increased magnitudes.

So this is our main lobby.

Since 2020, Richard, a Republican himself has faced an onslaught from his own party, undermining his

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