Election Day 2026 started off with election deniers claiming voter fraud was happening everywhere. But hours later, after a historic sweep of House and Senate races by Democrats, election deniers on the ballot were silent and made no real claims that the vote was rigged.
\n\nFor months, election deniers had alleged without evidence that the vote would be rigged to flip results in favor of Democrats, that mail-in ballots would be compromised, and that a wave of noncitizens would vote in such numbers to alter the outcome of the election.
\n\nNone of this happened, and in reality the country appeared to roundly reject the policies implemented by President Donald Trump and his administration.
\n\nFor months, hundreds of election deniers in state and federal races had campaigned on promises to investigate past elections or overhaul voting procedures. But a WIRED review of some of the most pivotal races involving election deniers found that almost all of them lost and none of them, or the network of activists and groups backing them, have raised any questions about the results.
\n\nIn Arizona’s governor race, Andy Biggs, who was among the members of Congress who challenged the 2020 election results on January 6, 2021…
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