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 3-2 Republican majority of the Spalding County election board, which is tasked with certifying the election results.
In a statement upon the report’s release, the Center for Media and Democracy’s executive director Arn Pearson, said: “While it is highly unlikely that these officials, along with deniers in Congress, will be able to prevent certification of the 2024 election results, they are in a prime position to force litigation and delay what should be a ministerial task while they and their allies whip up false claims of voter fraud, noncitizen voting, and a stolen election.”