Maine’s secretary of state, Shenna Bellows, says the threats she has faced since determining Donald Trump is disqualified from appearing on the presidential ballot in her state are an effort to scare her and others.
Bellows, a first-term Democrat appointed to her position by the Maine legislature, had her home swatted after someone placed a hoax phone call claiming he had broken in. Justices on Colorado’s supreme court, which also removed Trump from the ballot last month, have faced death threats. Surveys have shown there are alarmingly high levels of support for political violence in the US.
