(CNN) Republican candidates in a spate of 2021 races and in the 2022 midterms are increasingly focusing their campaigns on the baseless claim that voter fraud was a rampant problem in the 2020 election. Dozens of Republicans campaigning on Trump's election lies are seeking statewide offices that would give them authority over how elections are conducted and which ballots are counted. Last month, he ousted a 14-year incumbent member of the Virginia House of Delegates after campaigning largely on election fraud concerns. (Powell pursued a flood of post-election lawsuits that she'd said would prove widespread voter fraud, which ultimately failed.) But experts disagreed, saying that Williams and other Republicans making bigger promises are ultimately trafficking in the same lies about election fraud.

Source: CNN July 06, 2021 23:03 UTC