Research Cited

An 88-page report by the Center for Media and Democracy, a progressive nonprofit watchdog group, found evidence that state election officials in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have previously denied the legitimacy of the 2020 election or have spread false claims about voter fraud.

“The nightmare scenario is that they’ll hold up certification. They’ll force state officers to go to court to compel them to certify the results while they spread disinformation about widespread voter fraud and non-citizen voting,” said Arn Pearson, executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy, which issued its own report documenting election denialism […]

Democrats and election watchdogs breathed a sigh of relief when Georgia courts blocked the Trump-inspired rules, including two that would have given local election officials more power to attempt to block certification. But they should not rest easy, as significant peril still remains. At least 21 election skeptics who have expressed support for Trump’s false […]

In September, the Center for Media and Democracy identified 102 election officials across eight key states – Arizona, Wisconsin, Georgia, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Michigan – who had either denied the “legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election or spread false claims of widespread voter fraud”. Three of those officials make up the […]

Trump could be helped by election deniers in other ways. A study from the Center for Media and Democracy, for example, found that over 100 election administrators across eight swing states were skeptical or denied the 2020 results outright nearly four years ago, indicating they may try to do so again this year. “Our democracy’s […]

She is not an anomaly. Fusaro is one of at least 33 county officials throughout Pennsylvania who have expressed belief in Donald Trump’s nonstop election lies or supported policies rooted in election denialism, according to a review of social media posts and other public sources conducted by the Center for Media and Democracy and American […]

There are nearly a dozen county canvassers — all Republican appointees — who have expressed at least some level of doubt about the accuracy of Michigan’s 2020 presidential election results, according to the Center for Media and Democracy, a nonprofit watchdog group based in Wisconsin.