US election officials face ‘new era’ of violent threats, taskforce chief warns

John Keller says workers facing onslaught for dutifully and reliably doing their jobs' as man given 30 months for threats

Election officials across the US are facing an onslaught of unfounded hostility for dutifully and reliably doing their jobs", the head of a federal taskforce set up to protect the election community from violent threats said on Monday.

John Keller, who leads the day-to-day efforts of the election threats taskforce, based in Washington, told reporters that the wave of violent threats - unleashed by Donald Trump's lie that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen - amounted to an attack on the very foundation of our democracy - our elections".