Saturday, October 19, 2024
Special Edition: Death Threats, Panic Buttons & Worker Turnover Ahead of Election Day
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From bulletproof glass and panic buttons at polling places to record turnover among election workers, we're talking about the divisive, sometimes violent, nature of today's political environment leading up to Election Day in just a couple of weeks.
Our guest today, Chris Harvey, shares his personal experience with facing death threats as an election official, and he shares new steps being taken in a battleground state to prepare for November 5th and its potential fallout.
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Guest: Chris Harvey
Chris Harvey earned a BA in Political Science and Criminal Justice from The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, in 1989. After several years of seminary and teaching high school, he began his law enforcement career with the DeKalb County (GA) Police Department in 1994, before working as a Homicide Detective.
In 2015, he was appointed State Elections Director for the Georgia Secretary of State's Office, just in time for the most volatile six years in elections in Georgia's history. In 2021, he was appointed Deputy Executive Director of the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council (POST, the state agency responsible for certifying and setting training standards for all peace officers in Georgia.)
Chris is a member of the Committee for Safe and Secure Elections (CSSE) which is a collaborative, non-partisan group of law enforcement and elections experts formed to help law enforcement and election officials work together to respond to threats to election officials and to intelligently integrate law enforcement in securing elections.
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