| The “big lie” of the 2024 election is being workshopped on Webex. In tiny boxes, hundreds of people, most of them white, meet weekly in online video conferences to share specious evidence of a problem that doesn’t exist: a leftist plot to “get the illegals to become voters,” as Jeff Vega, a conservative Latino activist in Michigan, put it at a meeting in August. Noncitizen voting in federal elections is illegal. It is also incredibly rare. But the false belief that this is happening at rates that may tip the election toward Democrats who are out to steal it (again) marries two of the biggest themes in Republican messaging: that America’s borders and elections are insecure. “Our elections are bad, and a lot of these illegal immigrants coming in, they're trying to get them to vote," Donald Trump said during September’s presidential debate. | 