DHS report warns violent extremists pose threat to election workers and voting process [View all]

Source: ABC News

October 2, 2024, 3:09 PM


Domestic violent extremists will pose "the most significant physical threat to government officials, voters, and elections-related personnel and infrastructure, including polling places, ballot drop box locations, voter registration sites, campaign events, political party offices, and vote counting sites," according to a Department of Homeland Security assessment released on Wednesday.

DHS believes that extremists will be motivated by policy grievances, which have also led to an uptick in the targeting of election officials.

The overall threat environment in the United States "will remain high," according to the department's annual threat assessment.

"The Homeland faces a complex set of threats to our public safety, border security, critical infrastructure, and economy from violent extremists, transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), adversarial nation-states, and malicious cyber actors," the 2025 Homeland Threat Assessment says.

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