“My friends were hand-delivering things to him,” said Stephen Richer, the recorder of Maricopa County, Arizona CNN. Richer, a Republican, has been criticized by conservatives for defending the 2020 election results that Trump lost.

But so far the efforts of Richer's colleagues have been unsuccessful. “We pulled out more stops than most people have available to try to present (Musk) with accurate information,” Richer said. “It was unsuccessful.”

Musk spread false information about election security at a town hall event in Philadelphia on October 18, insisting, among other things, that Americans would vote in person and on paper, citing a debunked conspiracy in which voting machines swapped votes, according to PAC, America PAC, has promoted mail-in voting.

His social media platform X also failed to refute election lies. A report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) on Wednesday found that the Community Notes feature of

After Trump's strenuous efforts to cast doubt on the outcome of the 2020 presidential race, election officials were poised to combat misinformation in this election, but the sheer volume of misinformation online – and the lack of technology to combat it – has proven difficult for some proved frustrating.

“Labeling things as misinformation and disinformation is no longer helpful on Twitter, especially when Elon Musk himself is spreading misinformation and disinformation about elections,” said Barb Byrum, a county clerk from Ingham, Michigan, a Democrat Assets. “We can report a threat, but nothing happens.”

X, as well as America PAC and one of Musk's lawyers, did not respond AssetsPlease comment.

Headache for election officials

Trying to counter election lies has been an uphill battle, officials said. According to CCDH analysis, Musk's false election claims reached 1.2 billion views on X in August.

“The truth is that misinformation and disinformation are spreading around the world, growing a lot of legs long before I can sit down at my desk and take a sip of coffee,” Byrum said.

Officials like Richer have used the platform to have a direct dialogue with Musk. In a post on Richer replied in September

“Unfortunately, these lawsuits no longer have any interest in actually winning,” he said. “These are just PR stunts disguised as lawsuits.”

But there is a downside to officials trying to combat false claims on social media. Trying to put out misinformation fires is a poor use of time and energy by officials busy continuing to organize elections just days away, said Larry Norden of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.

“It’s distracting,” Norden said ABC. “We're putting a huge burden on election officials, and if they have to respond to someone spreading their own content on their own network to spread lies on top of that, it distracts from the essential work they need to do.” This is worrying.”

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