‘Is it going to be safe?’: suspicions and fear dominate a crucial swing county in lead-up to US election

In addition to worrying that the election will be rigged, now people in Saginaw county are nervous that violence will accompany it

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Vanessa Guerra is resigned to questions from Donald Trump's supporters about the many ways in which American voters imagine next month's presidential election might be rigged against him.

But more recently the Saginaw county clerk, who is overseeing the ballot in a highly contested patch of central Michigan, has faced a new line of questioning at meetings called to reassure distrustful voters.