% >> WITH GUIDANCE FROM ELECTION
% AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS,
% POLL WORKERS ACROSS THE STATE
% HAVE BEEN TRAINING FOR POTENTIAL
% DISRUPTIONS, EVEN VIOLENCE, ON
% ELECTION DAY.
% IN ONE SMALL CITY IN SOUTH
% CENTRAL WISCONSIN, THE ELECTION
% CLERK THERE HOSTED TRAININGS
% ABOUT WHAT TO DO IN THE EVENT OF
% GUN VIOLENCE WHILE TRYING TO
% BALANCE BETWEEN CREATING
% AWARENESS AND SCARING THE
% DAYLIGHTS OUT OF POLL WORKERS.
% >> LET THEM KNOW IT'S AN ACTIVE
% THREAT, ACTIVE SHOOTER.
% >> THIS IS ACTIVE SHOOTER
% TRAINING FOR A ROOM FULL OF
% ELECTION INSPECTORS IN THE SMALL
% CITY OF STOTEN.
% >> STAY AWAY FROM THE DOORWAYS
% AND WINDOWS.
% >> THEY LOOK ON AFTER ARRANGING
% THE TRAINING IN PREPARATION FOR
% ELECTION DAY.
% >> YOU SEEM ALMOST EMOTIONAL
% ABOUT THIS.
% WHY?
% >> THEY ARE MY RESPONSIBILITY.
% THIS IS JUST A TOUGH TIME RIGHT
% NOW, TOO, BECAUSE ALL THE CLERKS
% ARE UNDER SO MUCH STRESS RIGHT
% NOW AND WORKING UP TO
% NOVEMBER 8th.
% >> STRESS BORN OF RAPIDLY
% CHANGING VOTING PROCEDURES AND
% TODAY'S POLITICAL I HAVE
% INDUSTRIAL.
% >> WE NEED A LANDSLIDE SO BIG
% THE RADICAL LEFT CAN NOT RIG IT
% OR STEAL IT.
% >> WHERE A ROOM FULL OF POLL
% WORKERS COULD BE SITTING DUCKS.
% IS IT TARGETED?
% COULD IT BE?
% WE HATE TO THINK THAT WAY, BUT I
% FEEL THAT THE ENVIRONMENT IS
% DICTATING THAT.
% WE REALLY NEED TO BE AWARE.
% AND BE PREPARED.
% >> AND THIS BLOOD IS GOING TO
% SOAK INTO THIS GAUZE AND IT WILL
% START TO CLOT UP.
% >> AWARENESS AND PREPARATION
% THAT ALSO INCLUDES TEACHING
% THESE ELECTION INSPECTORS HOW TO
% PACK GUNSHOT WOUNDS TO STOP
% BLEEDING.
% >> WHEN YOU GO TO THE POLLING
% LOCATIONS, TAKE A GLANCE AROUND
% AND SEE, IS THERE A NEARBY ROOM
% WHERE I CAN BARRICADE MYSELF
% INTO THAT ROOM?
% >> TRAINEES LEARN TO HAVE THEIR
% HEAD IN THE GAME AT ALL TIMES.
% FROM CONSIDERATION OF
% BARRICADING AGAINST ASSAILANTS,
% TO HIDING.
% >> AGAIN, WHEN YOU ARE HIDING,
% DON'T HIDE ALL TOGETHER.
% YOU WANT TO BE SPREAD OUT
% AMONGST THE ROOM AS FAR AWAY
% FROM EACH OTHER AS YOU CAN.
% BECAUSE IF YOU ALL GO INTO ONE
% SPOT, IT MAKES IT ONE REALLY BIG
% EASY TARGET.
% >> OFFICER ALSO DESCRIBE HOW THE
% ELECTION INSPECTORS CAN SUBDUE
% SHOOTERS IF THEY ARE UP TO IT.
% >> THIS IS A POINT WHERE YOU
% BELIEVE THIS PERSON IS
% POTENTIALLY GOING TO KILL YOU OR
% KILL SOMEONE ELSE.
% DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES?
% >> FOR VETERAN POLL WORKERS
% WHOSE MASTERY LIES IN VOTING
% RULES AND REGULATIONS, LEARNING
% ACTIVE SHOOTER RESPONSE SEEMS A
% SAD REALITY OF THE CURRENT
% POLITICAL CLIMATE.
% >> I THINK IT SAYS A LOT ABOUT
% OUR CURRENT POLITICAL SITUATION.
% I WISH IT WASN'T THIS WAY.
% IT IS.
% IT'S GOOD TO HAVE THE TRAINING
% AND HOPEFULLY WE WON'T NEED IT.
% >> INSPECTORS WE SPOKE WITH ARE
% KEENLY CONCERNED ABOUT UNSETTLED
% RULES AROUND ELECTION OBSERVERS
% AND SHIFTING RULES ON ABSENTEE
% BALLOT CURING.
% MEANWHILE, U.S. ATTORNEYS IN
% WISCONSIN ANNOUNCED THIS WEEK
% THAT THEIR OFFICES WILL HANDLE
% COMPLAINTS ON ELECTION DAY
% INCLUDING THREATS OF VIOLENCE,
% FRAUD, AND VOTING RIGHTS
% CONCERNS.
% THE FBI WILL ALSO HAVE SPECIAL
% AGENTS ON HAND.