By Elizabeth Culliford and Raphael Satter
(Reuters) - A public Facebook group pushing false claims about voter fraud and Democrats trying to "steal" the U.S. election rapidly swelled to more than 325,000 members on Thursday, a day after it was created.
The "Stop the Steal" group, which says it was started by the conservative non-profit Women for America First, called for "boots on the ground to protect the integrity of the vote."
With tensions rising, about 200 of Republican President Donald Trump's supporters, some armed with rifles and handguns, gathered outside an election office in Phoenix, Arizona, on Wednesday following unsubstantiated rumors that votes were not being counted.
In Detroit, officials blocked about 30 people, mostly Republicans, from entering a vote-counting facility amid unfounded claims that the vote count in Michigan was ...
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