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Kenny Stancil

RARE PHOTOS: Az poll workers face right wing threats | Vintage Vibes

A poll worker handles ballots for the midterm election at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Elections Center in Phoenix, Arizona, on October 25, 2022. (OLIVIER TOURON/AFP via Getty Images)

Election workers in a hotly contested Arizona county have endured more than 100 violent threats and intimidating messages leading up to Tuesday's crucial midterms, most of them based on thoroughly disproven lies about Democratic voter fraud that former President Donald Trump and his allies have repeated ad nauseam for the past two years.

"The harassment in Maricopa County included menacing emails and social media posts, threats to circulate personal information online, and photographing employees arriving at work," Reuters reported Sunday, citing nearly 1,600 pages of documents it obtained through a public records request.

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