Summary
With six months to go before the likely rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, concerns are running high. Just 22% of Republicans expressed high confidence that votes will be counted accurately in November, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll.
The effort, which began about 18 months ago, is coordinated by the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and the center-right think tank R Street Institute. The goal has been to start conversations about trust in elections, primarily among conservative officials. “You can be a Republican and you can believe in all the Republican ideas without having to say the election was stolen,” organizer says.
Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson is the state’s top election official. A recent survey found that nearly 40% of local election officials had experienced such abuse. “The real things that go wrong in other states, are out in the open, are in full public view”
