Election deniers face a nationwide wave of pushbacks

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

When the new Arizona attorney general took office last month, she repurposed a unit once exclusively devoted to rooting out election fraud to focus on voting rights and ballot access.

In North Carolina on Tuesday, the State Board of Elections began proceedings that could end with the removal of a county election officer who had refused to certify the 2022 results even as he acknowledged the lack of evidence of irregularities.

And later this week, a group of secretaries of state will showcase a “Democracy Playbook” that includes stronger protections for election workers and penalties for those who spread misinformation.

These actions and others reflect a growing effort among state election officials, lawmakers and private-sector advocates to push back against the wave of misinformation and mistrust of elections that sprang from former president Donald Trump’s false claim that his 2020 defeat was rigged.

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[MissMillie]

1. I hit a paywall.... here's a link without one

https://archive.is/Bwm23

[IronLionZion]

2. Good, we need clarity and transparency of the processes

When people don't understand something, it's very easy to manipulate them with complete bullshit. This is the same for COVID, contracting, immigration, inflation, and lots of other things that people get enraged about.

[republianmushroom]

3. like it

[hibbing]

4. One of the worst things they have done

Is to foster and promote this idea that there is massive amounts of voter fraud. My idiot state just passed voter ID law because after 150 years of not one charge or conviction of voter fraud the unicameral felt it was vital that voter ID be implemented. But we all know what that is about.

Peace

[barbtries]

5. high fucking time.

trump's grip on his cult must loosen at some point. all he does is lose, you'd think some of them would have noticed that by now.