The sheriff of Orange County, Calif., Don Barnes, warned the public that violence and intimidation around the election would not be tolerated.
A retired United States Air Force brigadier general, Marty France, said it was up to Americans to protect election officials and their families from threats of violence.
And the Weld County, Colo., clerk and recorder, Carly Koppes, said members of the public had lost faith in the country’s election officials since 2020, when former President Donald J. Trump ramped up the spreading of baseless assertions about election fraud that continue today.
These messages and others were released on Tuesday, two weeks ahead of Election Day, by the nonpartisan Committee for Safe and Secure Elections in an effort to raise awareness about threats to election workers and to warn of consequences of any violence at the polls.