In July, the Department of Justice set up a special task force specifically to combat threats against election administrators. An unprecedented number of elections administrators received threats in 2020-so much so that a third of poll workers surveyed by the Brennan Center for Justice in April 2021 said that they felt unsafe and 79 percent wanted government-provided security. Coomer was one of many people in the crosshairs. Angry supporters of then-president Donald Trump, believing false accusations that Dominion had switched votes in favor of Joe Biden, published Coomer’s home address and phone number and put a million-dollar bounty on his head.
presidential election, Eric Coomer, an executive at Dominion Voting Systems, was forced into hiding. This essay describes the history of such forces in the U.S., shares the risk factors for election violence globally and how they are trending in the U.S., and concludes with some potential paths to mitigate the problem. Recent alterations to violent groups in the United States and to the composition of the two main political parties have created a latent force for violence that can be 1) triggered by a variety of social events that touch on a number of interrelated identities or 2) purposefully ignited for partisan political purposes.
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