It's Election Day, and even though the campaign may be over, the battle over misinformation is not.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Kimberly Adams.

Although millions of people have already cast their ballots, today is the big voting day. And we wanted to take this moment to explore some of the misleading narratives voters should expect online and how to deal with them.

Derek Tisler is counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice and has been

monitoring election misinformation. Keep in mind that elections are really one of the most complex

logistical operations that exist in this country. On election day, there will be over 100,000

polling places that are operating, each with its own equipment,

each with temporary poll workers, doing the best they can to serve their voters. And in this context,

it's inevitable that some problems are going to happen in at least some locations. Anytime you're

using technology, it could freeze, a scanner could jam or it could

otherwise just not perform the way that you want it to. It's frustrating, right? But the key thing is

election officials plan for these possibilities and they train poll workers on backup plans

that can keep voters voting and ensure that every ballot will be counted,

even if a voting machine breaks down or another small technical error happens.

But that's not going to stop some people from amplifying every tiny mishap into evidence

of some grand conspiracy theory in order to decrease confidence in elections.

That's such a good point, this idea of an isolated incident being amplified to make a larger

conspiracy theory. So how do people protect themselves and others around them from falling prey to

these narratives.

So the biggest thing that people can do is go to trusted sources of information.

Again, the best source of information is going to be election officials, the people who are actually running elections, the people who understand these processes the most.

It could be something where it's just

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