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Election officials describing personal threats made against them:
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<div class="paragraph html-box field-formatted-text text-long label-hidden"><h3>This oral history and corresponding policy paper attempts to capture their experiences and offer a path forward for healing the election community and protecting our democracy. By telling the on-the-ground story of election officials in their own voices, we seek to tell the story of those guardians of democracy who administered and secured this election, and, as a result, were the targets of unprecedented, baseless, and heinous attacks.</h3>
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</a>In conjunction with this oral history, the authors released <a href="https://purl.stanford.edu/mf969dh7882" target="_blank"><strong>Zero Trust: How To Secure American Elections When the Losers Won't Accept They Lost,</strong></a> a report outlining three exigent threats to the election process and eleven targeted recommendations to best address these threats in preparation for the 2022 midterms and beyond.</h2>
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