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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Kelly Rissman

GPS tracking and public tours: The extreme measures underway to prove elections are safe

Four years after Donald Trump and his loyalists repeated groundless claims of election fraud, counties across the United States are working to ensure 2024 won’t be a repeat of 2020 by taking extreme measures to demonstrate that US elections are not “rigged”.

His allegations about how the 2020 election was “stolen” spread on social media, resulting in baseless theories circulating, and which left much of the public with residual distrust of the vote-counting process. Those fears haven’t subsided since 2020 and Trump continues to push the idea that the voting process in 2024 will be flawed.

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