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As part of the campaign’s blitz to allege as much fraud as possible, the group brought forward a woman, Jill Stokke, who alleged that she tried to vote in person before being told a mail-in ballot had already been submitted in her name. It later turned out that the state had already adjudicated the …
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(Washington Post illustration; Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for The Washington Post; Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP; Facebook screenshots; iStock) A trove of internal documents turned over to the SEC provides new details of the social media platform’s role in fomenting the storming of the U.S. Capitol October …
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For English language posts, only 61 of over 57,000 posts mentioning the group or its members received fact-checks, researchers found. And Facebook hadn’t applied fact-checks to any of the posts analyzed in other languages such as Romanian, Hungarian, Swedish or Italian, despite there being …
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By Jonathan J. Cooper | AP, PHOENIX — Ron Watkins, one of the most prominent figures in the QAnon conspiracy movement, said Monday he is running for Congress in Arizona because the state is at the forefront of the fight by many Republicans over the 2020 election results. Watkins, a prominent …
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By Robyn Dixon, Dimitar Dilkoff AFP/Getty Images Medical workers transfer a patient from an ambulance at an area reserved for coronavirus cases at the Kommunarka Hospital outside Moscow on Oct. 15, 2021. MOSCOW — Unshaven and puffy faced, with tubes in his nose, a patient in a hospital’s …
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He can start with the bully pulpit he commands, the Senate floor. He can give a speech — or better yet, a series of speeches — specifically demolishing each of Trump’s lies. He can explain why Dominion’s voting machines couldn’t have flipped votes as many Republicans believe they did, and why …
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Additionally, Georgia took many steps to minimize risk both before and after the election. After the election, the state conducted three counts: an initial count, a machine recount, then a hand recount. After all three, Trump still lost by a little under 12,000 votes.
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By Emma Brown, McKenzie Lange Grand Junction Daily Sentinel/AP Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters reads an update on a June 2020 election in Grand Junction, Colo. A Colorado judge on Wednesday prohibited a local official who has embraced conspiracy theories from overseeing November’s election, finding …
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But, as Philip Bump wrote last week, it would matter just how much controversy there was over what the Justice Department did. If Trump forced mass resignations, and then, just as quickly, a politically convenient letter was suddenly released on the eve of Jan. 6, still without any real evidence? …
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By Felicia Sonmez and Amy B Wang, A Georgia judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit against members of Fulton County’s election board, ruling that the plaintiffs, who alleged that there were fraudulent mail-in ballots in the 2020 presidential election, lacked standing to sue. The decision by …
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