Panic buttons, bomb-sniffing dogs and bulletproof glass: Inside the threats swarming the midterm elections ... and the rhetoric that has officials on edge

Daily Mail - Oct 29, 2026

Election officials told the Daily Mail the threat landscape is profoundly different than it was several years earlier - fueled by new technologies, AI, and scorched-earth rhetoric.

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