If things aren’t going Donald Trump’s way on election night, he has given a good idea of how he may contest the results.
Trump and his allies have zeroed in on the baseless claim that Democrats are encouraging newly arrived migrants to vote for them in the 2024 election.
"Our elections are bad, and a lot of these illegal immigrants coming in, they're trying to get them to vote," Trump said at the Sept. 10 presidential debate.
There’s no evidence of a plot like this. Moreover, it’s illegal for non-U.S. citizens to vote in federal elections, and evidence shows instances of such voting are incredibly rare.
But it became clear this summer that the claim that noncitizens are poised to vote in big numbers had become one of the top false narratives leading up to the election.
The topic is unavoidable on conservative media, as are misleading posts about it on X, where owner Elon Musk has become a leading booster of the narrative.
Election officials across the country say the topic is now the most prevalent concern they are hearing from the public as voting has started in close to 20 states.
“It’s been a really common thing,” said Meagan Wolfe, the administrator of the Wisconsin Elections...
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