Election officials boost security as midterms draw closer. A voter in Denver here turns in his ballot for the Colorado primary elections on June 28.
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Election officials boost security as midterms draw closer. A voter in Denver here turns in his ballot for the Colorado primary elections on June 28.
Mandatory Credit: Marc Piscotty/Getty Images

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Locks, laws and bullet-resistant shields: Election officials boost security as midterms draw closer

In Douglasville, Georgia -- just west of Atlanta -- a new buzzer-entry system secures the doors of the Douglas County election office. And elections director Milton Kidd said he now varies the times and the routes he uses to travel to work -- all to evade the attention of election conspiracy theorists who have targeted the office.