Colorado’s top election official received more than 1,800 threats in past year

DENVER—InthewakeoftheshootingsoftwoMinnesotalawmakers,electedleadersinColoradoarethinkingabouttheirownsafety. Togetmoreinsightintoelectedofficials’concerns,Denver7spokewithColoradoSecretaryofStateJenaGriswold,whohasreceivedthousandsofthreatsinthelastfewyears,andaskedherwhatshethinksneedstobedonetoincreasesafetyforelectedofficials. “Politicalviolencedoesnothaveanyroominthiscountry,oratleastitshouldn’thave,”Griswoldsaid.“Justlastyear,Ireceived1,800deaththreatsorphysicalthreats.” Lastmonth,afederaljudgesentencedTeakTyBrockbank,aCortezman,tothreeyearsinprisonformakingthreatsagainstGriswoldandotherpublicofficials.Accordingtothefederalcomplaint,BrockbanksaidinasocialmediapostthatGriswoldneededto“hangbythenecktillsheisdeaddeaddead.” “HewasactuallyarrestedwhenIwasinthehospitalgivingbirthtoourbabyboy,”saidGriswold. InMarch,aFloridadentistwasalsosentencedtofederalprisonforthreatening