(Bloomberg) -- An all-out offensive by activists and state officials against election denial scored major successes in clamping down on the “stop the steal” movement in 2022, amid continued attempts to undermine free and fair elections in the US.
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Advocacy groups spent millions on ads against candidates who adhered to Donald Trump’s false claims that he lost due to widespread fraud and were running to oversee voting in presidential battlegrounds or lead them as governors. Local and state elections administrators coordinated with law enforcement to ensure that polling places remained safe.
In the end, though, it was voters who had the biggest impact, rejecting election deniers for governor and secretary of state in five key states, re-electing officials who defied Trump’s efforts to overturn his loss and backing ballot measures to make it easier to vote and harder to challenge fair and accurate results.But an even bigger challenge will come in the high-stakes 2024 presidential election.Seeking a return to the White House, Trump is still making baseless claims about the US voting system in all caps and the Republican majority in the US House includes a large number who backed his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including a handful who even urged the White House to declare martial law or take other dramatic steps, according to text messages obtained by the committee investigating the Jan. 6 attacks.
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