So: the backslide is real, but would just caution about the risk of distraction/confirmation bias when it comes to news items like this one.

Bc voter intimidation is DEFINITELY happening in all kinds of shitty new ways (weird door knocking “audits”, ballot box “surveillance”, etc)…but # of reports of intimidation to a hotline is a shitty way of trying to calibrate the extent of this.

Bc election security is obviously a much more prominent issue than in the past, and that alone will make people more likely to make a report. Also: there are a handful of folks in every community who will file a report about anything (along with some who never, ever will).

All that to say: it’s important to use good metrics to get a sense of just how much aggression/intimidation is taking place and in what form, and stuff like # of reported incidents isn’t one of them.