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🗓️ 11 April 2024
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Election deniers are mobilizing their supporters and rolling out new tech to disrupt the November election. These groups are already organizing on hyperlocal levels, and learning to monitor polling places, target election officials, and challenge voter rolls. And though their work was once fringe, it's become mainstreamed in the Republican Party. Today on WIRED Politics Lab, we focus on what these groups are doing, and what this means for voters and the election workers already facing threats and harassment.
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0:17.9 | Welcome to Wired Politics Lab, a show about how tech is changing politics. |
0:23.4 | I'm Leah Feiger, the senior politics editor at Wired. |
0:26.9 | Today, we're going to talk about how election deniers are mobilizing their supporters |
0:31.4 | and rolling out new tech to disrupt November, and what that means for voters and the election |
0:36.4 | workers already facing threats |
0:38.0 | and harassment. |
0:40.2 | We're going to be engaged. |
0:42.6 | We are going to understand the process and the lawful approach to the electoral system, and we're |
0:49.9 | going to have options to continue to hold to those truths. |
0:55.7 | We're not going to back down. |
1:01.4 | That was Catherine Englebrecht. She's the founder of True the Vote, a group that's been effectively trying to disenfranchise voters for more than a decade. This recording is from a |
1:07.5 | webinar that she led about organizing local activist groups to challenge |
1:11.2 | election officials. They do this by falsely claiming that voter rolls are filled with phony |
1:15.8 | registrations. And the group really became a big deal after 2020 when claims of election fraud |
1:20.9 | exploded. Now, along with a bunch of other similar groups, they're hosting training sessions |
1:25.9 | about how to organize on a hyper-local level. |
1:28.8 | They're learning to monitor polling places, target election officials, and deploy IV3, a software tool that allows people to challenge voter rules. |
1:36.8 | Joining me today from Cork, Ireland, to talk about all of this is David Gilbert. |
1:41.1 | David is a senior politics writer at Wired, who just published an article all about True The Vote and groups like them this week on Wired.com. |
1:51.2 | David, you set through two whole True The Vote webinars. How was it? |
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