From WIRED Politics Lab: How Election Deniers Are Weaponizing Tech To Disrupt November

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🗓️ 13 April 2024

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This is a preview episode of WIRED Politics Lab. Election deniers are mobilizing their supporters and rolling out new tech to disrupt the November election. These groups are already organizing on hyperlocal levels, and learning to monitor polling places, target election officials, and challenge voter rolls. And though their work was once fringe, its become mainstreamed in the Republican Party. Today, we focus on what these groups are doing, and what this means for voters and the election workers already facing threats and harassment.

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1:25.1	Wired. Today we're going to talk about how election deniers are mobilizing
1:30.2	their supporters and rolling out new tech to disrupt November and what that means
1:34.6	for voters and the election workers already facing threats and harassment.
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