about the very real tangible effects these lies have had on the americans who administer elections at various levels around the country. we have been following this allh yearlong. it is one of the more unnerving developments in our country since the 2020 election. election administrators being abused, harassed, threatens, vilified,basically hounded out of their jobs just for basically doing their job. today a rules committee in the senate heard from election officials who laid out in detail the threats they personally have faced this year. here is two of them.teha arizona secretary of state katie hobbs. she s a democrat. and al schmidt, he s a board member of the board of directors in the great american city of philadelphia. mr. schmidt is a republican. as the lawsuits mounted, so did the threats against me and other election officials. orange jump suits were mailed to county supervisors. they were protesters outside of my house.