Facing A Deluge Of Election Misinformation, Colorado Takes The Offensive Against It

The New York Times News Service Syndicate, Denver Post: Politics
Tue, 10/20/2020 - 10:15am

By Nick Corasaniti and Davey Alba, The New York Times Like so many modern election sagas, it started with a tweet. In 2019, Jena Griswold, the newly installed secretary of state in Colorado, saw a tweet falsely claiming that her state’s election system had been hacked, using a picture of voting equipment as evidence. RELATED: Did you hear about voter intimidation at a Denver drop box?

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