Fighting Back Against Election Lies

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🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Research from the Voting Rights Lab, a nonpartisan group that tracks election laws, surveyed voters on their attitudes toward election systems and processes. They found that tweaking messaging related to elections impacts the way voters look at the way elections are conducted, possibly giving a roadmap for officials who want to fight back against disinformation.

This episode: political correspondent Ashley Lopez, voting correspondent Miles Parks, senior political editor & correspondent Domenico Montanaro.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's Tamara Keith from the NPR Politics Podcast, and I am so excited because
0:05.0	we are getting ready to go back out on the road and Houston, you're up first.
0:10.3	Join Susan Davis, Osma Halled, Ashley Lopez, Domenico Montenaro, and me at Zilca Hall on
0:16.3	Thursday, September 15th.
0:18.4	You can find more information about tickets, including for students at nprpresents.org.
0:24.6	Thanks to our partners at Houston Public Media.
0:27.3	We hope to see you there.
0:30.3	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:34.8	I'm Ashley Lopez.
0:35.8	I cover politics.
0:36.8	I'm Miles Parks.
0:37.8	I cover voting.
0:38.8	And I'm Domenico Montenaro, Senior Political Editor and Correspondent.
0:42.4	How do you solve a problem like collection misinformation?
0:45.0	It's a question on the minds of many as we navigate primaries ahead of November's midterms.
0:50.6	And Miles, this has been a growing problem in elections.
0:53.6	Since 2016 and Russia's influence campaign on that election, how much closer do you think
0:59.0	we are to solving that?
1:01.0	Well, Ashley, we have both spent a lot of the last couple of years talking to election
1:04.8	officials.
1:05.8	I don't think I wish I could say, wow, we've really figured it out after six years of basically
1:11.0	spending a lot of manpower, money, energy as a society thing about this issue.
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