
Trump loyalists are knocking on voters' doors in the latest quest to find fraud in the 2020 election
CNN
These so-called "citizen canvasses" are the latest twist in the effort by Trump's supporters to advance claims -- pushed by the former President himself -- that he lost the 2020 election through voter fraud. The door-to-door activity has raised alarms for some state and local election supervisors and for voting-rights advocates who fear it could confuse voters, or even worse, veer into voter intimidation.
"They said they were with something called the 'Committee to Verify the Election' or something like that -- something I had never heard of," said Snell, a retiree and former Democratic candidate for the state legislature.
More than a year after the election, reports of door-to-door canvassing have surfaced across the country -- from battleground states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan and Florida, to solidly red Utah. An Ohio scientist popular in circles associated with former President Donald Trump recently told a Wisconsin legislative committee that he's already trained canvassing teams in 30 states.

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