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Resilience, value, pride,

An absentee voter drops off their ballot outside the Flathead County Courthouse in Kalispell,
Mont., Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. innocence and love
(Thom Bridge/Independent Record via AP)
Minor poll problems twisted into false

US election claims

By Christina A. Cassidy and Geoff Mulvhill mer U.S. president, seeking to subvert elec-
Associated Press tions are going away,” said David Levine,
(AP) - Voters did not encounter wide- the elections integrity fellow at the Alli-
spread problems on Election Day. That ance for Securing Democracy and a for-
has not stopped former President Donald mer elections director in Ada County, Ida-
Trump and other Republicans from falsely ho. In 2020, conspiracies about a rigged
portraying minor snags at polling places to election were fueled by bogus reports of
undermine confidence in the results. suitcases stuffed with fraudulent ballots at
Two years after conspiracy theorists spread a Georgia vote-counting operation and
the “big lie” about President Joe Biden “ballot mules” loading up drop boxes with
stealing victory from Trump, they are now fraudulent ballots.
propagating smaller lies about the 2022 Since then, the GOP has kept up the rheto-
midterm elections. ric and laid the groundwork for contesting
Trump and GOP allies are distorting the this year’s midterm elections in an effort
truth about election hiccups that experts to sow doubt about Democratic victories.
say officials handled well, including voting More than 100 lawsuits were filed across
machine malfunctions in Arizona’s largest the country before Election Day. Those
county and errors in the poll books used to cases targeted mail-in voting rules, voting
sign in voters in Michigan’s largest city. machine security and access for partisan
“While I think yesterday’s election was poll watchers.
smoothly conducted, nobody should as- Page 7
sume that those forces, including the for- Continued on Page 2