.MaddowBlog: Hundreds of election workers faced threats and menacing messages. The DOJ is starting to file criminal charges.
in November:"After Reuters reported the widespread intimidation in June, the U.S. Department of Justice launched a task force to investigate threats against election staff and said it would aggressively pursue such cases. But law enforcement agencies have made almost no arrests and won no convictions. In many cases, they didn't investigate."U.S.
In the new case, a Las Vegas man named Gjergi Luke Juncaj was taken into custody this week and appeared in a federal court yesterday. He faces four counts of making threatening phone calls and the possibility of two years in prison on each count., which were announced last week, against a Texas man named Chad Christopher Stark, who's been accused of making violent threats against Georgia election and government officials.
To be sure, Reuters documented more than 850 threats and menacing messages directed at election workers, and two arrests may not seem like much. But they're a start, and as this morning's report added,"Justice Department officials say they are now investigating dozens of similar cases."