Legacy media are once again parroting the debunked lie that there is a growing, widespread problem of Republicans threatening election workers.
Of course, Time places the blame for this alleged problem on Donald Trump and his so-called "Election denying" supporters, and warns that Congress's upcoming budget is "Likely the last chance" Democrats have to "Safeguard" the 2024 election.
During his August 2022 testimony before the U.S. Senate, Kenneth A. Polite Jr., the assistant attorney general for the criminal division of the DOJ, claimed the agency's Election Threats Task Force - which was launched in July 2021 to address this alleged "Rise in threats" against election workers - had reviewed and assessed roughly 1,000 allegedly "Threatening and harassing" communications directed toward election officials.
"[T]o recap: In a country of roughly 331 million people, the DOJ - in the span of a year - received roughly 1,000 calls alleging threats toward election workers, in which only about 11 percent of cases warranted a federal investigation," I wrote at the time.
So how exactly does Time justify its claim that there's been a "Titanic upswing" in threats directed toward election workers since the 2020 contest? The first is by linking to a survey from the Brennan Center for Justice - a highly partisan organization engaged in left-wing activism - claiming to show persistent fear among election workers for "Their colleagues' safety."
Yes, there are verifiable threats made against election workers, however rare.
What we're seeing is a media-wide effort to take anecdotal incidents of threats and blow them out of proportion to give the appearance that election workers are under constant siege from so-called "Election denying" MAGA Republicans.
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