And they’ve kept up a drumbeat of dubious claims about voting, along with the lie that the election was stolen in 2020.
Prosecutors allege that the Trump campaign used similarly aggressive tactics in Philadelphia to force confrontation with election officials, which Trump and his allies used to claim his supporters were denied access to observe the count.
Election officials have been operating in an increasingly hostile environment as GOP skepticism of election administration has climbed.
Among them: shifting numbers of noncitizens Trump allies claimed had voted in the 2020 election.
In Georgia, state courts are reviewing new rules from the State Election Board that Democrats say give county election officials broad authority to delay certification of the results in search of purported election irregularities.
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