Election worker intimidation

Election workers — county clerks, poll workers, canvassers, certifying officials — are the people who actually run elections. Intimidation of them takes the form of threats (physical, professional, legal), harassment, the publication of their home addresses or family information, and organized campaigns to terminate or recall them for performing lawful duties. The publication tracks these incidents because attacks on election workers are an attack on the capacity to administer elections at all: workers who quit under threat are not replaced overnight, and the resulting attrition compounds across cycles. The standard applies to threats regardless of the party affiliation of the workers targeted.