The rising tide of political threats against election officials isn’t just disrupting their lives — it could endanger the nation’s votes by scaring people away from jobs at the polls, according to a new analysis from the Guardian. Threats received by Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows and the Colorado judges who blocked former President Donald Trump from their states’ ballots under the 14th Amendment’s insurrectionist ban foreshadow a challenging election year in 2024, Lilliana Mason, a political science professor at Johns Hopkins University, told the Guardian Wednesday. “It’s a message s…