Alarm over Trump-fueled election threats as 'under siege' officials leave in droves

In the first election Amy Burgans fully oversaw as clerk-treasurer for Douglas County, Nevada, she received a death threat.

It was 2022. Someone returned their mail-in ballot with “crazy talk” written all over it, including the threat to Burgans. That same year, law enforcement got involved over a stalker’s texts.

“It's almost par for the course, which is horrible, but you have to know that those types of things can come in with the heightened political environment that we live in...