Arizona's Election Lies Lead to Plague of Hate and Ignored Priorities.

Threatening emails and social media posts have become the new normal for elections officials in Arizona, especially those in swing states such as Maricopa County. Since the county became a frequent target in 2020 after Trump lost both it and the state, the county has worked to catalogue and respond to threats to protect its employees and try to hold the people making these threats accountable, creating one of the most robust threat monitoring and response systems in the nation. The number of threats against Maricopa county elections officials increased in 2022 compared with 2020, though the county improved and perfected the way it catalogued threats, making a direct comparison difficult.