Panic buttons. As the elected county clerk and ... November’s presidential contest – he and this nation's other election workers have found themselves facing increasingly volatile attacks.

provide panic buttons and armed security for her election workers. Fall is the elections director for Cobb County, Georgia, one of the most densely populated areas of the state. She’s worried ...

Officials in a key county in battleground Georgia are taking a new step to ensure election workers’ safety amid rising threats, equipping them with so-called panic buttons that would allow them ...

“Counties have also supplied panic buttons that will notify law enforcement instantly,” he said. Hassinger added that concerns about poll workers meddling with the election are unjustified.

MARIETTA, Ga. — The election director in Cobb County, an Atlanta suburb where votes will be fiercely contested in this year's presidential race, recently organized a five-hour training session.

“There are counties that have made panic buttons that poll workers can hit. There are counties that have outfitted every polling location with a smartphone, so they have immediate access to like ...

It is also why this year, for the first time, election workers at all of Charleston County's 104 polling places will be issued panic buttons. Staff working at the county's seven early voting ...

In Allegheny County alone, 3,500 of the roughly 4,000 elected poll worker positions on the November ballot will lack a ...

Election workers across the country also will have ... Crocamo is considering purchasing panic buttons for poll managers who will be at some 130 voting locations throughout the county on Election ...