03/19/2024

Meet the Election Official Combating Misinformation One Tweet at a Time

This county recorder publicly calls out X users who lie

The Arizona primary is today, and there have already been allegations of voter fraud. Last month, a woman from Arizona who works with the right-wing group Turning Point USA posted a picture to X (formerly Twitter) of two mail-in ballots along with two early voting packets for the primary.

"Maricopa county at its finest, my first time ever voting in a presidential preference election and I received not one but two mail-in ballots," Aubrey Savela wrote in the accompanying caption, suggesting the situation was proof of voter fraud in Arizona.

Savela's post would likely have been lost in the flood of election conspiracies posted on the platform had she not added another line: “Thank you @stephen_richer.”

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