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The controversy, triggered by a report in Bloomberg, has unleashed a flurry of charges and countercharges.

The final days of the Iowa campaign were shaped by the fight for second place and the increasingly vitriolic charges and countercharges between Ms. Haley and Mr. DeSantis over the airwaves and in press interviews.

As he helped Alcocer with the countercharge, he said he voiced concerns about the amount of material being loaded into the containment vessel, according to his and Levesque’s interviews with investigators.

The fighting in the area was especially bitter, with bloody charges and countercharges as the Union forces struggled to hold their lines against Confederate assaults.

Delays and countercharges in ballot fights open space for rumors, hyper-political spin and outright disinformation to breed and spread, said David J. Becker, the executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research.