Reporting on Election Deniers
Reporting on Election Deniers
Top Story: Reporting on Election Deniers
As we enter into the last days of the 2024 election season, election deniers abound.
And many are in charge in the places where it’s really going to matter.
In fact, according to a new report released by the Center for Media and Democracy, a whopping 239 of today’s Republican election administrators, candidates and party leaders (in eight key swing states) doubted the 2020 election resultants, refused to certify results or spread misinformation about voter fraud.
As for the folks working the upcoming elections, 102 of them (in those same eight swing states) have a history of election denial.
Why are so many people who don’t trust elections working our elections in the places it most matters?
Because the GOP wants it that way.
Read more HERE.
This week, Reporting Right takes on election deniers.
Tips on Covering Election Deniers
Learn about the election denier playbook HERE.
Research how endemic election denying is HERE.
Get clear on pre-election tactics to deny people’s votes HERE.
Read how election denying works HERE.
IMPORTANT
By 2022, 60% of Americans had an election denier on their ballot.
And some of those election deniers made it into office, where they worked to mainstream their false claims.
CALL ELECTION DENIERS OUT EARLY AND OFTEN.
Expert Source on Election Deniers
Arn Pearson, executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy
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Reed Gallen, co-founder of The Lincoln Project
Isaac Kamola, associate professor of political science at Trinity College, founder of Faculty First Responders and co-author of Free Speech and Koch Money, Manufacturing a Campus Culture War
Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe distinguished professor of history and public policy at Duke University and author of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America
Ralph Wilson, founder of the Corporate Genome Project and co-author of Free Speech and Koch Money, Manufacturing a Campus Culture War
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