The risk of electoral violence in America is real

THERE I AM countries in the world where machete-wielding teenagers intimidating voters are a routine part of elections. America is not normally among them. However, on October 29, an 18-year-old man from Florida was arrested for doing just that. According to local police, Caleb James Williams was part of a group of eight youths who sat in the parking lot of an early voting precinct in suburban Jacksonville, waving Donald Trump flags and chanting slogans. Mr Williams allegedly “pointed a machete in an aggressive and threatening position overhead” at two women supporting Kamala Harris.