‘Every noise makes you jumpy’: US election workers confront threats and abuse with resilience training

Nearly half of all officials have been insulted, a third harassed, and nearly one in five threatened, according to CivicPulse

On a quiet day, home alone with the windows open at her Michigan home, Tina Barton thought she heard a voice saying: Hello."

Her heart started beating quickly, as she believed someone uninvited might be outside her rural house. She slammed the windows shut. She called her husband and had him check the security cameras. He saw no one.