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Threatening the people who ensure Americans have free and fair elections is becoming a defining feature of U.S. politics. “People will continue to test the limits of our election administration,” said Tammy Patrick, a former election officer in Arizona who now runs the election center at the National Association of Counties.

It’s one of the more troubling aspects of what some see as America’s slide toward anti-democratic tendencies. Here’s what’s going on, three years after Donald Trump’s false claims that he won the 2020 election, and the ensuing insurrection at the U.S. Capitol — and a year before we have another presidential election.

They’re still receiving threats: Some say they’ve received messages from anonymous people who claim to know which room their daughter sleeps in, or that their son turns on a certain street to walk to the bus stop in the morning. Sometimes it has gone beyond threats: At least one reported their dog being poisoned. WAPO

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