DOJ deploys district elections officers to handle 'threats and intimidation'

The Justice Department is deploying district elections officers across the nation ahead of Election Day to ensure poll workers can "do their jobs free from threats and intimidation." 

The elections officers are expected to work in coordination with the Justice Department's Election Threats Task Force, which was created in June 2021 by Attorney General Merrick Garland and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco to address alleged violence against election workers. 

The task force, since its inception...