Electoral misinformation, where citizens believe false or misleading claims about the electoral process and institutions—sometimes actively and strategically spread by political actors—is a challenge to public trust in elections specifically and democracy more broadly (Hernández-Huerta and Cantú 2022; Rossini, Mont’Alverne, and Kalogeropoulos 2023), with the potential to undermine political institutions and fuel violence when people distrust the electoral process.
