Overview

• Republican-led 'election integrity' units in six states have only obtained 47 convictions out of tens of millions of votes cast, according to a Washington Post analysis.
• The units have predominantly targeted minorities and Democrats for prosecution, with 76% of defendants being Black or Hispanic, and 58% registered Democrats.
• All of the convictions occurred in Florida, Texas and Ohio, while units in Virginia, Georgia and Arkansas failed to obtain a single guilty verdict, despite allocating dozens of staffers and millions of dollars.
• The majority of the convictions represent small-scale cheating or mistakes by individual voters, rather than the wide-ranging schemes claimed by Trump and some Republican allies.
• Critics argue that these units are either for show to placate far-right election denialists, or are used to justify new voting restrictions and intimidate people, especially racial minorities, from exercising their right to vote.