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⇱ How to fight election misinformation - PubMed

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Abstract

Novel factual information can help safeguard the perceptions of election integrity in democracies.

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Fig. 1.. Electronic ballot boxes used throughout Brazil in the municipal elections of 2020.
Voting machines are commonly targeted in election misinformation, but simple factual information about election security helps to reduce beliefs about election fraud. Credit: rodrigogavinic/iStock.

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