Threats against MI officials and election workers spike amid a ‘climate of hostility'

Threats targeting election officials have been seeing an alarming rise in recent years, with indications that it might be getting worse heading into the November election.

According to the latest monthly update from the Bridging Divides Initiative’s (BDI) Threats and Harassment Dataset, reported events involving threats and harassment targeting local public officials in the U.S. more than doubled in July.

BDI, a non-partisan research initiative based at Princeton University...