Trump’s Big Lie Turns Local Elections Toxic

“For the second time since Election Day 2020, uniformed police officers will be on duty when ballot counting begins in Green Bay’s local elections,” Politico reports.

“It’s the result of tension building for over a year in the city, which has become ground zero for election conspiracy theories in a battleground state still consumed by the last presidential race. Furor that started over the use of private funds to help a cash-strapped local government run the 2020 election soon morphed into something darker than normal political disagreement, including a report of a ‘suspicious person’ who improperly accessed the clerk’s office on Election Day 2020.”

“Now, Green Bay’s nonpartisan city council races — traditionally quiet affairs that focus on taxes and roads — feature ads from a GOP super PAC questioning whether the city’s elections are legitimate.”