Good morning. Welcome, Naxios today. It's Tuesday, October 18th. I'm Nyla Boudou. Here's

what you need to know today. Blue seasons starting early. Plus, the student loan forgiveness program

is open for applications. But first, new warnings about threats to election workers. That's

today's one big thing.

The FBI has issued a warning about threats to election workers ahead of the midterm elections.

And Colorado has been identified by the FBI and Homeland Security as one of the top states for

threats to poll workers, which is put election administrators on high alert. Axios reporter,

John Frank is based in Denver and has been covering efforts to disrupt the 2022 midterm elections.

Hi, John. Hi. So the FBI saying this is worse than 2020. What states and what actions in particular

are they worried about? It's hard to believe, but yes, what seems to be happening here is all the

threats, falsehoods, misinformation from the 2020 election are all coming to a head here in the 2022

election. And so what election workers here on the ground in Colorado tell me is that it's just

a lot more intense, the scrutiny they're facing, the public records request, and yes, the threats to

election workers. The FBI issued a report earlier this year that found about 60% of the threats to

election workers were in just seven states. So that's Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Michigan,

Pennsylvania, Nevada, Wisconsin. And what all those states have in common is they all underwent

election disputes, recounts or audits after 2020. Here in Colorado, for example, we had a recount

in our 2022 June primary for Secretary of State. And the woman who lost was an election

denier and forced to recount in this race, which again showed that she did lose. But still,

it stirred up enough animosity and threats that Colorado is one of these top states.

John, to add to the confusion, I know there was a mistake that was made in Denver about some cards

to register to vote that went out to some 31,000 non-citizens. How much is that adding to problems?

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