Special Edition: Death Threats, Panic Buttons & Worker Turnover Ahead of Election Day
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
From bulletproof glass and panic buttons at polling places to record turnover among election workers, we're talking about the divisive, sometimes violent, nature of today's political environment leading up to Election Day in just a couple of weeks.
Our guest today shares his personal experience with facing death threats as an election official, and he shares new steps being taken in a battleground state to prepare for November 5th and its potential fallout.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Saturday, October 19th. |
| 0:03.0 | Election day is just over two weeks away now, but the preparations have been going on for years at this point, |
| 0:08.0 | in part because of a more contentious, sometimes violent, political environment. |
| 0:12.0 | Steps are being taken to avoid another capital riot. sometimes violent political environment. |
| 0:12.6 | Steps are being taken to avoid another capital riot. |
| 0:15.4 | Polling places are getting security upgrades. |
| 0:18.1 | And there's been record turnover among election workers |
| 0:20.9 | who have faced more threats in recent years. |
| 0:23.5 | So today our guest is Chris Harvey. |
| 0:25.5 | He worked as Georgia's election director for the most volatile years in elections in the state's |
| 0:29.8 | history so far. |
| 0:31.2 | And in 2021, he got back into law enforcement setting training standards for all of |
| 0:35.3 | Georgia's peace officers. He's also a member of the Committee for Safe and Secure Elections, |
| 0:39.6 | a nonpartisan group that brings law enforcement and elections experts together. |
| 0:43.6 | Here's our conversation about the state of political violence in America, how election officials |
| 0:47.6 | are preparing, what it felt like to face death threats, and more. |
| 0:50.8 | Welcome, welcome to the Newsworthy Special Edition Saturday when we sit down with |
| 0:57.3 | a different expert or celebrity every Saturday to talk about something in the news. |
| 1:01.2 | Don't forget to tune in every Monday through Friday for |
| 1:03.2 | our regular episodes where we provide all the days news in 10 minutes. I'm Erica |
| 1:07.5 | Mandy. It's now time for today's special edition Saturday. |
| 1:12.0 | Chris Harvey, thanks for joining us. Saturday. |
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