Elon Musk is accused of rampantly spreading election misinformation, and it has been a thorn in the side of election officials working double-time to try to mitigate the spew of unfounded claims about meddling and alleged voter fraud. Some officials have even gone to measures like dispatching personal notes to the CEO of Tesla and X, who endorsed Donald Trump in July following an assassination attempt on the former president at a rally in Butler, Pa.
“I’ve had my friends hand-deliver stuff to him,” Stephen Richer, the Maricopa County, Ariz., recorder, told CNN. Richer, a Republican, has come under fire from conservatives for defending the 2020 election outcome that Trump lost.
