Researchers say the days following the election may pose a greater risk of violence than Election Day itself, particularly in locations where vote counting drags on.
"What happens when people don't have their preferred candidate win?" said Oren Segal, vice president of the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism."They have seen that denial is a way forward, that you're able to create a community of conspiracy around that. I think violence is not that far behind."
"You are allowed to make a written record of anything you see not going on correctly," Eastman said, according to audio obtained by the watchdog groupHiller, of the Bridging Divides Initiative, said she expects the field of locations where threats of violence are most pernicious to narrow fairly quickly.
"One of the stories of 2020 for me is that many of the fail-safes worked. The court systems were effective. A lot of the recounts that happened were incredibly effective. And folks were able to surge resources to those locations," she said."So we're in for another election that's going to test those resources and that resolve."Many are also watching closely to see what this cycle may portend for the next big one: the 2024 presidential election.
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