Michigan Secretary of State Strikes Twice in 48 Hours in Disturbing Case Against Election Officials.

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson was hit twice in just 48 hours, according to a tweet she sent Monday. Swatting reports, the practice of calling 911 to falsely report a serious crime in order to prevent a potentially dangerous police response to a person’s home, has increased in recent years among election officials. And it looks like the situation will only get worse as we approach the 2024 presidential election in November between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

“Hate speech and violent threats have no place in our democracy. Yet twice in the past 48 hours my home has been the target of a disturbing ‘attack’,” Benson said on Twitter. “Thank you for the professional, coordinated response from local law enforcement and the government who quickly contained the threat and worked to ensure our safety.”

Benson has been the target of attacks from right-wing nutjobs who believe he is the reason Trump lost the 2020 election. In fact, Benson was told that Trump once suggested that he should be arrested for treason and executed. The Trump campaign has denied that the former president ever said such a thing, according to NBC News, but Trump has publicly suggested that other people in his administration deserve the death penalty, including Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley.

Election officials in Maine, Georgia, Missouri and Virginia have all been fired recently, according to CNN. Most have vowed not to be intimidated, and Michigan Secretary of State Benson has said the same, writing to X that the watershed won’t change how he helps manage elections in Michigan.

“Swatting is a form of political violence that is horrific, dangerous and intended to terrorize its victims. But hear me right: I will not be afraid,” Benson wrote. “These threats have never and will never stop me from my mission: to ensure that the citizens of Michigan have confidence in their safe, fair and accurate elections. I will continue to stand with election professionals across Michigan to monitor the vote of citizens regardless of who they are, where they live, or who they vote for. Forward.”

President Joe Biden won Michigan in 154,188 votes in 2020 and he was in danger of losing the state if he had stayed in the race, according to polling statistics kept since about November 2023. But Kamala Harris has reversed course for the Democrats and the latest New York Times poll has Harris in the lead. to win by 4 points.

No one knows for sure who will win in November, but Harris has built momentum and is doing very well in the polls. Unfortunately, that means Trump and his army of neo-fascist thugs have even more incentive to use swatting and other forms of harassment to swing the election if they can’t win it the right way.