A Detroit Police Department officer monitors the room as election officials count ballots at Huntington Place convention center in Detroit, Michigan.
Photographer: Brittany Greeson/BloombergThe Big Take
‘What Worries Me? Everything’: Officials Brace for US Election Day
Across the country, a surge in election threats has authorities deploying new tactics to protect people and ballots.
The squat brick building, 50 miles from the White House, stands as a monument to the hard new realities of American democracy.
Bullet-resistant glass clads the windows. Lockdown bolts secure the doors. Panic buttons dot the walls. Trauma kits — tactical tourniquets, compressed gauze, medic tape — lie at the ready.