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On the recordOctober 31, 2023
I think it is crazy that we would not want or that someone might think that we would not want to hold people accountable for threatening civil servants.
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Peter Welch
Democratic · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Calls for accountability for those threatening election workers.

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