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Selling Americans a ‘lie’: How election integrity attorneys battled left-wing efforts to upend voting laws

Derek Lyons

The 2024 election cycle was rife with repeated legal battles to protect the voting processes from left-wing attorneys leveraging the courts to strip election safeguards, the chief of an election integrity nonprofit who saw a string of legal wins told Fox News Digital. 

“They’ve been selling American people a lie,” Restoring Integrity & Trust in Elections (RITE) President Derek Lyons told Fox News Digital in a Zoom interview, referring to left-wing efforts to undermine election laws. “And I think that these past two election cycles, where people have said ‘No, voting is very easy and millions, hundreds of millions of people have been doing it,’ have shown that what they’re doing is misleading, at the very least.”

RITE is a non-profit organization founded in 2022 following voters’ concern over the security of the 2020 election during the COVID-19 pandemic. The group was co-founded by Fox News contributor Karl Rove and includes board members such as former Attorney General Bill Barr and Fox News contributor Andrew McCarthy. The organization hit the ground running in 2022 to ensure its “mission of protecting the rule of law in the qualifications for, administration of, and tabulation of voting in the United States,” according to the group’s website. 

Lyons spoke to Fox News Digital just less than a month after Election Day, when he took a victory lap for his team’s battles against efforts to reportedly undermine election integrity, detailing the top legal tactics left-wing activists took during the election season. 

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From left to right, White House Counselor Hope Hicks, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications and Director of Social Media Dan Scavino, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and White House Staff Secretary and Counsel to the President Derek Lyons walk on the South Lawn after then-President Trump returned to the White House from a trip to Michigan May 21, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Lyons, an attorney and former White House staff secretary and counselor to the president under President-elect Donald Trump’s first term, explained that Democrat activists were hyper-focused throughout the election on decrying efforts put forth by state legislatures to ensure safe elections, such as voter ID laws, frequently claiming such a policy would disenfranchise voters. 

“​​The main thing they do is anytime anybody puts…

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