Posted on Feb 9, 2022
Right-wing conspiracies have a new target: a tool that fights actual voter fraud
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If Republicans over the past few years have made one thing clear, it's that they really care about voter fraud.
Sometimes they call it "election irregularities" or "shenanigans," but the issue has become a calling card for a party whose voters by and large falsely think elections in the U.S. are tainted.
Which is what makes a currently blossoming election conspiracy so strange: The far right is now running a disinformation campaign against one of the best tools that states have to detect and prevent voter fraud.
And experts worry voting policy is already starting to suffer as a result.
If Republicans over the past few years have made one thing clear, it's that they really care about voter fraud.
Sometimes they call it "election irregularities" or "shenanigans," but the issue has become a calling card for a party whose voters by and large falsely think elections in the U.S. are tainted.
Which is what makes a currently blossoming election conspiracy so strange: The far right is now running a disinformation campaign against one of the best tools that states have to detect and prevent voter fraud.
And experts worry voting policy is already starting to suffer as a result.
Right-wing conspiracies have a new target: a tool that fights actual voter fraud
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Yes we do. If people who should not be voting do so, or they use other people's names and information...that means everyone's votes (both right and left) count less...
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Hit piece. The article doesn't explain the allegations against ERIC at all. They may be right that the allegations are overblown, but that should be easy to illustrate if so.
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