They have produced videos and crafted
graphics, shared across Twitter, Instagram
and Facebook, in an ongoing series called
“MythBusters” that explains how complex
voting issues such as recounts, audits and
provisional ballots work. Last year, as the
elections board was overwhelmed with calls
and emails complaining about the voting
process, it invited critics to take a tour of the
warehouse that stores voting equipment and
elections offices. Roughly two dozen people
showed up, Linser said.
Trump has continued to describe the 2020
election as “rigged” or “stolen,” despite a
coalition of top government and industry
officials calling it “the most secure in American
history.” A mountain of evidence has concluded
that the election was executed without any
widespread fraud. An Associated Press review
of six battleground states disputed by Trump
identified 475 cases of potential voter fraud,
nearly all of which were isolated cases and were
certainly not enough to tip the election in either
candidate’s favor.
Yet Trump’s supporters have pushed for
additional audits and reviews of the vote count.
In Arizona, GOP lawmakers last year hired a
firm called Cyber Ninjas that spent six months
searching for evidence of fraud to support
Trump’s false claims of a stolen election. The
group instead concluded that Biden had won
the state by 360 more votes than the official
results certified in 2020.
Staff in Arizona’s Maricopa County, the target
of many false claims about the vote, have used
the county’s official Twitter accounts to respond