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A key swing county in Georgia has approved nearly $50,000 in funding toward panic buttons for election workers this November.

The Cobb County Board of Commissioners approved the funding on Tuesday as part of a $2.43 million package for the upcoming election presented by the director of the county’s Board of Elections and Registration.

Now, the Board of Elections has the funding to purchase some 200 devices for workers.

The devices are small rectangles that fit in pockets and can be worn on a lanyard, NBC News reports. They can be programmed to send alerts to local law enforcement and can pair with cellphones to transmit the user’s location.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fucking sad. All of this shit is only coming from ONE PLACE, and it's not the Democrats...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I sure wish our Justice and Law Enforcement systems worked.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Sadly, some of those that work forces…

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Very normal country.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

they need federal protection. FBI, US Marshalls, I don't care - armed people WAITING AT THE POLLS, watching for the fuckery.

We cannot afford to 'react' to the fuckery as if we don't know it's coming.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

armed people WAITING AT THE POLLS, watching for the fuckery

I'll be there. And I am not joking, had already put in for PTO. Any Red Hats that look to be causing trouble or hassling people are getting confronted.

Liberals have this bizarre world view where the authorities will protect them, make everything alright, while at the same time pointing to police corruption and the like. FFS people, the authorities are the problem.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I appreciate your service as a poll watcher.

I'm more concerned with your ability to defuse and stop politically motivated violence, which requires uniforms and weapons. not discounting you, but if the redhats march the line threatening people with violence you're going to be outnumbered and probably outgunned.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He certainly wouldn't be out "balled". Those guys are cowards.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

no doubt, but they're not relying on courage or intelligence, it's pure dumb hate

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Cobb County isn’t the first to use these devices. More than half of Georgia’s counties use them, NBC News reports.

Threats against election officials are on the rise across the country in the wake of the 2020 presidential election, during which Donald Trump and other major GOP players falsely claimed the vote was fraudulent and President Joe Biden did not win the election.

At least four secretaries of state have revealed they have received death threats since the 2020 election. 

Meanwhile, one in six election workers reported being threatened because of their job, according to a 2022 survey from the Brennan Center for Justice. 

Cobb County borders Fulton County, where Trump is being charged alongside his former attorney Rudy Giuliani and several others over election interference charges. It was there that Trump had his infamous booking photo taken, which has proven to be a massive fundraising machine for his campaign.