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Election Workers Are Facing Immense Pressure to Back Trump's Lies

Rolling Stone
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69% Informative

Team Trump , conservative activists, dark money groups, and the world’s richest man are leading a coordinated and multi-pronged pressure campaign to coerce election workers into doing Trump 's bidding.

The sprawling pressure campaign involves crowdsourcing false fraud claims on platforms like X, the platform owned by billionaire Trump booster Elon Musk .

Follow the Law is lobbying local election officials to refuse to certify results of a possible win on Tuesday by Vice President Kamala Harris .

The group is tied to the Heritage Foundation and Trump coup attorney Cleta Mitchell ’s Election Integrity Network.

Since 2020 , some rogue, pro-Trump election officials have refused to certify election results at least 30 times.

Follow the Law has run ads in legal journals in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania , as well as ads in Georgia supporting rules passed by the MAGA majority on the State Election Board .

A similar group published a guidebook aimed at Michigan election officials that argues they have the ability to investigate fraud claims before certifying results.

At least 21 election deniers serve on county election boards throughout Georgia .

VR Score

67

Informative language

63

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30

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

66

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not offensive

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not hateful

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short-lived

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