The nation's deep partisan divisions extend to trust in the vote tallies for this year's election. A new poll finds that Republicans are much more skeptical than Democrats that ballots will be counted accurately. The AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey found that voters generally show more distrust toward nationwide voting results compared to the tallies done by their own local election offices. The survey also found older voters have more faith in the vote count at all levels than younger voters. This year's election marks the first presidential race since former President Donald Trump began a campaign of lies about a stolen 2020 election. Election experts warn that Trump may be laying the groundwork to once again challenge the election if he loses.

U.S. intelligence officials say a video that purports to show election fraud in Georgia is fake and the work of "Russian influence actors." determined to undermine faith in the integrity of next week's presidential election. The video shows someone claiming to be a Haitian immigrant talking about how he's intending to vote multiple times in two Georgia counties for Vice President Kamala Harris. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Thursday night that the video is "obviously fake," and likely the product of Russian trolls "attempting to sow discord and chaos on the eve of the election." The FBI and other agencies echoed that finding on Friday.

The last time Donald Trump ran for president, some of the lawyers most directly involved in his efforts to overturn the election wound up disbarred, criminally prosecuted or sued for millions. This time, Republican party leaders are aiming to turn the page from that chaotic and failed effort and say they'll have a professional legal operation. Democrats are warning of a renewed potential to undermine confidence in the electoral process. Republicans and Democrats are already fighting in court over election rules. But the Trump team finds itself under a particularly intense microscope given the aftermath of the 2020 race. That's when long shot legal efforts to challenge the results were dismissed by judges as frivolous.

The Republican National Committee is launching a battleground state initiative to mobilize some 100,000 polling place monitors, poll workers and attorneys to serve as "election integrity" watchdogs in November. The effort, announced Friday in Michigan, immediately drew concerns that it would lead to harassment of election workers and undermine trust in voting. The RNC says its new "election integrity division" will help U.S. citizens have faith in the electoral process and ensure their votes matter. Both parties have a long history of organizing supporters to serve as poll monitors, but election experts were concerned that the RNC's approach is promoting the notion that only a stolen election can prevent a win by former President Donald Trump.

President Joe Biden's reelection campaign is calling on Republicans to drop lawsuits targeting mail voting now that Donald Trump has embraced the method. The Republican National Committee has filed multiple lawsuits seeking to limit provisions of mailed ballots, including in states that allow ballots to arrive after Election Day as long as they were postmarked by then. For years, Trump has falsely alleging that mail voting is riddled with fraud. But Trump has started to urge his supporters to vote through the mail if it's convenient for them. Republicans say there's no contradiction between supporting mail voting and suing to make it more secure.

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