Election conspiracy theorists force another audit — this time in Georgia
Three recounts of Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results weren’t enough for voter fraud conspiracy theorists.
By Emily Singer - May 21, 2021Three recounts of Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results weren’t enough for voter fraud conspiracy theorists.
By Emily Singer - May 21, 2021Republican lawmakers in New Hampshire advanced a bill that would ban officials from preprocessing absentee ballots in future elections.
By Emily Singer - May 20, 2021‘Enough is enough,’ said Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates. ‘It’s time to push back on the big lie.’
By Emily Singer - May 18, 2021Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan says Republicans need to appeal to voters, not lie about fraud and suppress the vote.
By Emily Singer - May 17, 2021House Minority Leader said no one is ‘questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election.’ But more than two-thirds of Republicans do not believe President Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 election.
By Emily Singer - May 17, 2021Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said the idea of a congressional probe into the riot ‘threatens people in my party who may have been playing a role they should not have been playing.’
By Emily Singer - May 13, 2021House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy called the GOP the party of ‘free thought and debate,’ even though he’s punishing a Republican for daring to criticize Donald Trump.
By Emily Singer - May 10, 2021Donald Trump and other Republicans claimed in 2020 that election results must be counted on election night to be valid.
By Emily Singer - May 10, 2021At least some Republicans in Arizona are admitting the conspiracy theory-fueled recount of millions of ballots in the state is embarrassing.
By Emily Singer - May 10, 2021It’s the latest bad news for the Republican-led audit of 2.1 million ballots cast in Arizona’s 2020 presidential election.
By Emily Singer - May 06, 2021Among the members of the new ‘Election Integrity Alliance’ are ex-Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis, indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, and racist ex-Trump aide Sebastian Gorka.
By Emily Singer - May 05, 2021Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) has spoken out against Donald Trump since he began spreading lies about the election. Now it looks like the GOP has had enough.
By Emily Singer - May 04, 2021Multiple reports say GOP lawmakers may take another swing at ousting Cheney from House Republican leadership.
By Emily Singer - May 03, 2021Facebook will announce on Wednesday whether Trump can have his account back.
By Emily Singer - May 03, 2021A trio of voting rights groups said they fear ‘ongoing and imminent violations of federal voting and election laws’ in the Republican audit of Arizona’s 2020 election results.
By Emily Singer - April 30, 2021Lawmakers have used the repeated lie that the 2020 election was rife with fraud as justification for their voter suppression bills.
By Emily Singer - April 26, 2021An investigation from Nevada’s Republican secretary of state found voter fraud claims from the state GOP were bunk.
By Emily Singer - April 22, 2021A new paper from the Public Policy Institute of California found that in some cases an increase in absentee voting can help Republicans more than Democrats.
By Emily Singer - April 14, 2021Georgia Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan told CNN that Rudy Giuliani’s ‘misinformation’ campaign led to the voter suppression law in the Peach State.
By Emily Singer - April 08, 2021Michigan is seeking sanctions against former Trump attorney Sidney Powell for filing frivolous lawsuits to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
By Emily Singer - April 07, 2021Even Republicans in the state have said a third audit is unnecessary.
By Emily Singer - April 01, 2021The voting machine company is suing Fox News for a whopping $1.6 billion for the network’s lies about voter fraud.
By Emily Singer - March 26, 2021Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is the latest Republican to back voter suppression tactics without any proof that voter fraud took place.
By Emily Singer - March 16, 2021Rep. Lauren Boebert is trying to water down the ‘For the People Act of 2021.’
By Emily Singer - February 26, 2021Republicans are using lies about voter fraud to justify suppressing the vote in future elections.
By Emily Singer - February 24, 2021Election officials around the country are grappling with how to counter misinformation in the 2022 midterms and beyond.
By Associated Press - February 06, 2021Smartmatic USA claims that it received death threats, including against an executive’s 14-year-old son, after Fox News claimed it stole votes from Donald Trump.
By Associated Press - February 05, 2021Donald Trump was banned from Twitter for life for inciting violence through his account.
By Oliver Willis - February 02, 2021‘They’re trying just to destroy President Trump. They see him as a threat.’
By Associated Press - February 01, 2021Rep. Jim Jordan says Democrats ‘knew they couldn’t beat President Trump without changing the rules.’
By Donna Provencher - January 27, 2021