Far-Right Election Groups Are Now Targeting Nursing Homes
Right-wing groups, specifically the Election Integrity Network, are targeting nursing homes with unverified claims of voter fraud. The campaign encourages followers to monitor and question care facilities, a move critics describe as an attempt to undermine trust in the electoral process.
Why it matters
It highlights the intersection of election denialism and the targeting of vulnerable populations in the lead-up to elections.
The groups, led by the right-wing Election Integrity Network, have claimed without evidence that left-wing organizations are perpetrating voter fraud inside nursing homes, care homes, and assisted-living facilities. The network is now recruiting their followers to contact and question those facilities.
“These left-wing groups go into the nursing homes, and they go into the group homes, and they basically steal the votes of these most vulnerable,” Cleta Mitchell, the Election Integrity Network’s founder, said in a recent appearance on Steve Bannon’s War Room show.
As evidence, Mitchell referenced a case in Wisconsin from 2020 in which a sheriff alleged that eight residents in a care home had their votes filled out for them. The Wisconsin Election Commission rejected the claims. Mitchell told Bannon the case could have cost president Donald Trump the 2020 election, though that wouldn’t be possible: Trump lost Wisconsin in 2020 by over 20,000 votes.
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