The Center for Media and Democracy released a report on September 13 identifying 239 Republican election administrators, candidates and party leaders across eight critical swing states who denied the 2020 election results, refused to certify previous elections, or spread misleading claims about widespread voter fraud.
The number of “election deniers” overseeing the 2024 elections is alarming. After scouring social media profiles and public records, researchers identified 102 election administrators at the state and county level who qualify as “election deniers” in eight swing states: Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina and New Mexico.
The list also includes 50 Republican congressional candidates and six GOP candidates for statewide executive office, including Kari Lake, a candidate for Senate in Arizona who followed in Trump’s footsteps and spent months unsuccessfully challenging her loss in Arizona’s 2020 gubernatorial race.