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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Peter Stone

State attorneys general step up plans to counter Trump’s meddling in midterms

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Nick Brown, Washington state’s attorney general, is coordinating efforts by Democratic counterparts in other states to protect midterm election security. Photograph: Lindsey Wasson/AP

Democratic state attorneys general, other top state officials and civic groups have accelerated planning to thwart any federal meddling in the November midterm elections by Donald Trump as he continues his false charges of widespread voting fraud and veiled threats of interfering in the process.

Since early this year, 24 Democratic attorneys general have expanded coordination with about a dozen Democratic secretaries of state and several civic groups using weekly Zoom calls and in-person tabletop exercises to strategize about countering any federal intervention in the elections.

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