{"id":1609506,"date":"2022-08-16T18:49:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T22:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1609506"},"modified":"2022-08-16T18:49:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T22:49:19","slug":"oversight-democrats-demand-federal-intervention-against-election-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oversight-democrats-demand-federal-intervention-against-election-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Oversight Democrats Demand Federal Intervention Against \u2018Election Misinformation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foversight-democrats-demand-federal-intervention-against-election-misinformation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1609506&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-democrats\">Democrats<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-house-oversight-committee\">House Oversight Committee<\/a> demanded in an Aug. 11 report that the federal government do more to respond to alleged \u201celection misinformation,\u201d which they say has weakened the capacity of election offices across the United States to carry out their official duties.<\/p>\n<p>The committee report claimed that so-called misinformation efforts led by President Donald Trump and other conservatives have overwhelmed election offices and caused an uptick in threats against election workers (<a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.oversight.house.gov\/files\/2022-08-11%20Election%20Disinformation%20Report%20.pdf\">pdf<\/a>). To respond to this, Democrats said, \u201cstrong federal leadership is needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLies and confusion about the 2020 election are an ongoing threat to representative democracy,\u201d the report states. \u201cMisinformation and disinformation drive fraudulent efforts to cast doubt on legitimate election results, increase threats to election administrators, and create pathways for bad actors to subvert our democratic elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the same strain, the report added, \u201cLies about our elections, whether intentional falsehoods or pervasive misunderstandings, endanger both the democratic system and the people who administer our elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Threats Against Election Workers Allegedly Increased <\/p>\n<p>A key focus for Democrats in the report is the ways that the alleged misinformation about the 2020 election has increased threats against election officials and made it more difficult for them to do their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElection officials have been continuously vilified by conspiracy theorists led by former President Donald Trump and his supporters,\u201d the Democrats wrote in one section of the report.<\/p>\n<p>In a subsection about \u201cdisinformation campaigns\u201d carried out by \u201cmalicious domestic actors,\u201d the report dives deeper into Democrats\u2019 claims on this front.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeading up to the 2020 presidential election, misinformation about all aspects of the voting process surged,\u201d they wrote. \u201cThe coronavirus pandemic created a unique environment for voter confusion as states sought to adapt their rules on registering and voting by mail, creating opportunities for online misinformation to spread widely across<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats on the House Oversight Committee demanded in an Aug. 11 report that the federal government do more to respond to alleged \u201celection misinformation,\u201d which they say has weakened the capacity of election offices across the United States to carry out their official duties. The committee report claimed that so-called misinformation efforts led by President [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1609506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}