ICYMI: Tarrant County Judge Race Is Shaping Up to Be a Microcosm of Debate over 'Election Integrity'
. You might recall that after that election, many Trump supporters trafficked the claim that the vote had been rigged in Joe Biden's favor.rode Trump's coattails on those claims, which had also inspired the former president's supporters to riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
"There are some people running for both gubernatorial and secretary of state offices across the country who are election deniers and are basically proposing making elections partisan, sort of deciding before the vote actually occurred," she explains."And that is really troubling and a threat to our democracy that I don’t think many people thought they were going to ever see."
Whether voters are concerned about local elections or not, the Tarrant County Judge race shows that election deniers are gradually building their influence and power, Beirich says. And those candidates might run for higher offices down the line. Peoples worries the voters who haven't gotten caught up in fraud conspiracy theories are likelier to believe their vote doesn't matter if everyone else thinks the whole thing is rigged., claims of voter fraud were common in the 2016, 2018 and 2020 elections, with"politicians at all levels of government" falsely alleging those votes"were marred by large numbers of people voting illegally.
With midterms approaching on Nov. 8, Poppy MacDonald, the CEO of the voter advocacy nonprofit USAFacts, says electoral misinformation in recent years has eroded the public's trust in the democratic system.
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