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The election denial movement in the United States is a widespread conservative belief that any United States election not resulting in a desired Republican victory has been rigged and stolen through voter fraud by Democrats. Adherents of the movement are referred to as election deniers.
- Tactic 1: Win Control of Election Administration
- Tactic 2: Refuse to Concede Electoral Defeat
- Tactic 3: Refuse to Certify Results
- Tactic 4: Discredit Voting Machines
- Tactic 5: Tamper with Sensitive Voting Data and Equipment
- Tactic 6: Massive Public Records Requests
- Tactic 7: Recruit Election Deniers to Serve as Poll Workers and Watchers
- Tactic 8: Threaten Election Officials and Workers
- Tactic 9: Intimidate Voters
- Tactic 10: File Mass Voter Challenges
Pushing false narratives of widespread election fraud, election deniers will continue to run for local and state offices that oversee elections. Nearly 300 election deniers ran for state and congressional offices in 2022. These candidates, led by notable election deniers, including Kari Lake and Mark Finchem of Arizona, Kristina Karamo of Michigan,...
Election deniers will likely continue to protest their losses and file groundless lawsuits in an effort to raise their national profiles. Most of the election-denying candidates who lost in 2022 conceded defeat. For example, although Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels repeatedly questioned the 2020 presidential election results during hi...
With election deniers on the ballot and newly in charge of local election offices, more local officials may refuse to certify elections in 2024. Local election officials have a nondiscretionary duty to certify elections. But even though certification should function as a ministerial act, the following counties refused to certify or delayed certific...
Election deniers continue to claim that voting machines are susceptible to fraud and should be replaced by hand-counts. Election deniers targeted voting machines throughout the midterms. Rooted in conspiracy theories that Dominion voting machines were rigged to alter the 2020 election results, attacks focusedon barring the use of machines to record...
Election deniers may continue their attempts to gain illegal access to voting equipment and data. Throughout 2022, officials continued to uncover incidentsacross the country in which election deniers tried to illegally access equipment and data in an effort to “investigate” the 2020 presidential election results. Some of these cases involved “insid...
Election deniers may repeat their attempt to overburden local election offices with an abusive volume of records requests and other forms of public access. Records requests related to the 2020 election soared during the midterms. Election officials generally attribute the surge to prominent election deniers such as Mike Lindell, who urged people to...
Efforts to install potentially disruptive individuals as poll workers and watchers will likely continue in 2024. Throughout 2022, Cleta Mitchell led the Conservative Partnership Institute’s so-called “Election Integrity Network” — a coalition of conservative leaders, organizations, public officials, and citizen volunteers aimed at gaining control o...
Election denial rhetoric continues to fuel threats of violence and other forms of retribution against those who administer elections. The 2022 election cycle saw a heightened climate of violence against election officials and workers. Just before the general election, the FBI warned that unusual levels of violent threats against election officials ...
In a climate of election denial discourse, conspiracy theories, and reduced firearms regulations, voter intimidation remains a significant threat. Election officials reported a modest but noticeable increasein voter intimidation throughout the 2022 election cycle. For example: 1. Leading up to Election Day, pro-Trump canvassersaround the country kn...
Election deniers may continue to file mass challenges in an effort to burden election offices and intimidate voters. Armed with information pulled from amateur data matching, activists motivated by false claims of widespread voter fraud flooded election offices with mass challenges to disqualify voters or remove them from the rolls across Florida, ...
Apr 11, 2024 · Election deniers are training others to challenge voter rolls and overwhelm election officials. And they’re using tech to do it. Photo-illustration: WIRED Staff; Getty Images....
Oct 20, 2022 · October 20, 2022. 14 min read. Editor's note: This is Part 2 of a series which will take an in depth look at election deniers in the 2022 midterms in an effort to assess their likelihood of...
Nov 4, 2022 · Nov 4 (Reuters) - Several Republican candidates for governor and secretary of state in next week's congressional elections are election deniers in battleground states that play a decisive role...
Jun 30, 2022 · June 30, 20225:06 AM ET. Heard on Morning Edition. By. A Martínez. , Miles Parks. 3-Minute Listen. Playlist. Election deniers are spreading false narratives that there was rampant fraud in the...
Aug 15, 2023 · Aug. 15, 2023. For two and a half years, most of Donald J. Trump’s allies in the sprawling effort to overturn the 2020 election escaped consequences, continuing to try to undermine President...
