A Georgia sheriff's office has refused to investigate death threats and racial slurs against election workers, saying the attacks are "not a crime."
Milton Kidd, the voter registration director in Douglas County, told Stateline that he was regularly threatened.
"Milton Kidd is a nasty n----- living on tax money like the scum he is," a voter wrote in one email to Kidd. "Living on tax money, like a piece of low IQ n----- shit."
He also receives harassing voicemails, he said.
"I don't know if you're aware, Milton, but the American people have set a precedent for what they do to f---ing tyrants and oppressors who occupy government office," one caller warned in a voicemail. "Yep, back in the 1700s, they were called the British and the f---ing American people got so fed up with the f---ing British being d--ks, kind of like you, and then they just f---ing killed all the f---ing British."
Kidd, a Black man, said he was "dumbfounded" and developed a security routing in response to the attacks.
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"He never takes the same route home two days in a row, and he makes random turns to avoid being followed," Stateline reported.
However, Captain Trent Wilson of the Douglas County Sheriff's Office said he could do nothing to protect Kidd.
"It was very distasteful," Wilson said of the messages to Kidd. "But just because they're distasteful don't mean they're criminal."
"Look, I'm a Black man. So, we don't like to be called a n-----. But calling someone a n----- is not a crime," he added.
For his part, Kidd has accepted that he is a target of people who believe false statements former President Donald Trump has made about the 2020 election.
"In 2024, I work a job that I have to allow myself to be called a n-----," he explained. "But I do it because I want to make sure people have access to the ballot box."