VOTER FRAUD."[325] Bluestein got a security detail at his home, and the experience gave his three-year-old daughter nightmares.[326]
Similarly, after President Trump promoted online accusations that Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers had been "intentionally misleading the people of Arizona . . ."[327] Bowers's personal cell phone and home address were published,[328] leading demonstrators to congregate at his home, honk horns and shout insults until police arrived.[329] Bowers told the Select Committee this was the first of at least nine protests at his home, sometimes with protesters shouting into bullhorns and calling him a pedophile.[330] One protestor who showed up at his home was armed and believed to be a member of an extremist militia.[331]
Sadly, those were not isolated incidents. Stories similar to Schmidt's and Bowers' proliferated after President Trump's loss in the election. Examples from each of the States discussed in this chapter are documented below, but this list is by no means exhaustive:
- Arizona: After Secretary of State Katie Hobbs's home address and son's phone number were publicly released, demonstrators congregated outside her home chanting "we are watching you."[332] A social media user at the time recommended: "Let's burn her house down and kill her family and teach these fraudsters a lesson."[333] Secretary Hobbs has continued to receive threats since then, reporting over 100 threats to the FBI in mid-2022, including a September 2021 voicemail message that "you should be hunted" and "will never be safe in Arizona again."[334]
- Arizona: Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes testified before Congress that his family had "go-bags" packed in case they needed to evacuate and that, because of the threats, he had moved his children "out of the family home at least once for three days in the wake of serious threats to [his] family's safety."[335]
- Arizona: Paul Boyer, a Republican State senator, had to evacuate his family, get police protection, and change his phone number after he voted against jailing Maricopa's County Supervisors over election disputes.[336]
- Arizona: On January 5, 2021, a comment on a blog suggested some members of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors "have earned a good old fashioned neck tie party" as "punishment for Treason."[337] According to Board member Clint Hickman, "the threats never abated."[338] And on January 6th, police convinced Hickman and his family to leave their home.[339]
- Michigan: Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and her family were driven out of their home for several days after dozens of protestors with
