Post Misrepresents Impact of Voter Registrations Delivered to Maricopa County

Maricopa County — Arizona’s most populous county and the fourth most populous in the U.S. — was the target of misinformation after the 2020 election due to the pivotal swing state’s importance in deciding the winner of the presidential election, as we’ve written.

Former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, accused county officials of running a “corrupted election” in 2020, and he continues to spread misinformation about Maricopa County.

In June, Trump falsely suggested that Senate candidate Kari Lake lost her 2022 race for governor because there was a plot to break the county’s “Republican [voting] machines.” Some printers did produce ballots that were too light for on-site tabulators, but those ballots could have been counted later. Lake’s court challenges failed and an independent review found no evidence of wrongdoing.