Melissa Hartman poses for a portrait inside of her home, Tuesday, July 16, in Eden, N.Y. A man threw a dummy pipe bomb through the window of the Erie County, N.Y., clerk candidate’s home in 2022. Hartman lost her county clerk race and hasn’t sought elective office since.
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