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Peter Stone in Washington

Pro-Trump Patrick Byrne boosts funds to far-right voter-conspiracy groups

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Patrick Byrne in Washington in 2022. Photograph: Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The multimillionaire and prominent election denier Patrick Byrne has been boosting his funding to the Maga-allied America Project and using it to steer six-figure checks to far-right groups that push voting conspiracies in Arizona, Michigan and elsewhere, according to tax records and voting experts.

Byrne, the former CEO of online retailer Overstock.com, said last fall that only $3m of the $30m the Florida-based project had raised at that point came from “the public”, with the rest coming from him.

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