Voters elect more than 7,000 state legislators across the United States. In a system like ours, where elections are run by individual states, that means state legislators have immense power to determine voting procedures and shape how elections are administered. Among the many laws they take up in any given year are those governing elections. When they serve in state legislatures, Election Deniers can leverage this power to erode our democracy—and do so outside the spotlight of national politics.

This resource identifies the Election Deniers serving as legislators in seven states—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—using data collected by States United Action and the McCourtney Institute for Democracy. These seven states were the focal points of the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election. As a result, they also became centers of the Election Denier movement, and hotbeds of election lies and misinformation.

In total, we found that 202 sitting legislators in these seven states are Election Deniers.

Read the report here.