TALLAHASSEE — Elections officials in Florida and three other states are being harassed and threatened amid a torrent of unfounded allegations of election fraud, according to a new report released Thursday by a Democrat-led congressional committee investigating election misinformation and disinformation.
“What we heard is chilling. Election officials are under siege. They face growing campaigns of harassment and threats, all driven by false accusations of fraud,” said Democratic U.S. Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, D-N.Y., who chairs the House committee overseeing the investigation, in a statement.
Maloney said Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Roger Stone, a one-time adviser to former President Trump, and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who pushes debunked election conspiracy theories, had singled out one Florida election administrator following the 2020 election.
She said they publicized his office phone number and encouraged listeners to call with the message that, ‘“they are watching him” and that, quote, “he is a piece of crap.”’ Maloney didn’t name the Florida elections official.
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The report mentioned one troubling incident in Texas, where an election administrator faced a social media call to “hang him when convicted for fraud and let his lifeless body hang in public until maggots drip out of his mouth.”
The congressional committee reached out to elections officials in...
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