Conservative leaders across the country have established state offices focused on “election integrity” as a response to ongoing myths about widespread voter fraud. Using records requests, American Oversight is investigating the structure and funding of these units, which threaten to intimidate voters and our democracy.

Lies about voter fraud are infecting this year’s elections — even as more evidence comes to light of the former president’s willful blindness to those lies’ obvious falsehood and the violence they fueled.

American Oversight won an important victory in its lawsuit for the release of public records related to Kentucky's Ballot Integrity Task Force, a 2020 partnership between state election officials and law enforcement aimed at investigating and deterring incidents of supposed “voter fraud.”

The "Big Lie" was built on a decades-long campaign by conservative activists and lawmakers, who hyped up the threat of voter fraud to impose restrictive voting laws and to cement political power. From Trump’s early false claims of large-scale fraud in 2016 and his attempts to pressure officials to overturn his 2020 loss to the long trail of election “audits,” American Oversight has been investigating the anti-democracy movement’s attempts to promote the Big Lie and undermine free and fair elections. 

On Monday, American Oversight published an in-depth look at the "Big Lie" and the decades-long campaign by conservative activists and lawmakers to hype up the threat of voter fraud.

Top officials — including Georgia’s Gabriel Sterling — who stood firm against former President Trump’s stolen-election lies have nonetheless avoided criticizing, or have even voiced support for, anti-democratic voting restrictions.

Efforts to undermine the 2020 presidential election results in Arizona culminated in an "audit" of votes cast in Maricopa County. The discredited effort was instigated by a partisan majority in the state legislature, involved a number of right-wing conspiracy theorists, and — as expected — failed to uncover any evidence of a fraudulent election.

Trump’s time as president was defined by multiple financial conflicts of interest and unprecedented abuses of power that touched nearly every aspect of public life — and there’s still a lot the American public needs to know.

Documents obtained by American Oversight reveal that in private, Georgia's secretary of state’s office admitted that “systematic checks stop double voting from happening, and those checks appear to be largely working as intended.”

On Tuesday, American Oversight sued the attorney general of Kentucky for documents and communications that could shed light on the work of its task force investigating supposed voter fraud.