On Friday and Saturday, the 5th District GOP Committee is hosting an “election integrity” rally at conservative Liberty University in Lynchburg.

The event was organized by Melvin Adams, chairman of the Republicans’ 5th Congressional District Committee, who has acknowledged that he and his wife, Sandy Adams, were outside the U.S. Capitol with the mob of Trump insurrectionists on Jan. 6.

The “featured guests” advertised for this weekend’s rally?

The three Republicans seeking to become Virginia’s next top leaders in November—GOP gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin, GOP lieutenant governor candidate Winsome E. Sears and GOP attorney general candidate Jason S. Miyares.

Election integrity rally? Really?

One look at the agenda for the daylong slate of seminars and it’s clear Mr. Adams and his conservative clan are attempting to spread in Virginia the putrid nonsense and lies perpetuated by former President Trump that rampant voter fraud cost him the election last November.

Those same lies have enshrouded Arizona, which is undergoing a bogus recount of the 2020 presidential election results; and pushed Texas, Florida and Georgia to consider and/or enact legislation to suppress voting rights in an effort to keep Black and Brown people — who generally vote Democratic — from casting ballots.

Here are a few entries from the rally’s agenda:

“Voter Integrity #1 – Understanding 2020 and cleaning up voter data.”

Read: Purging voters from the rolls in Virginia — a recommendation that Ms. Sears, a Winchester businesswoman and former member of the House of Delegates, said should take place monthly if she is elected. Mr. Miyares, a Virginia Beach lawyer and former House member, also wants to clean the voter rolls and institute a new photo ID rule for voting, according to his campaign website.

“Voter Integrity #2 – Polls, election officials, election observers and early voting.”

Read: How to limit early voting in Virginia, in part, by restricting early voting sites, dates and hours; limiting the locations and hours of drop boxes to collect ballots; and putting into place election officials and observers who will go along with the same GOP game plan to limit voting that already has infected the aforementioned Southern states.

“School Board Challenge: Rescuing our children and America.”

Read: To make the racist GOP dog whistle complete, throw in a session about protecting white children from the ugly truth about U.S. history by attacking Critical Race Theory, which isn’t even being taught in K-12 schools.

Since last week’s revelations about the rally, many Virginians, including former Gov. Terry McAuliffe and the other Democratic contenders in November, have criticized the three Republican office-seekers for supporting the event peddling Mr. Trump’s lies. Former Gov. McAuliffe has called on the Republican candidates to “disavow this dangerous, deadly conspiracy theory once and for all.”

Earlier this week, Ms. Sears’ and Mr. Miyares’ campaigns said they have withdrawn from the event, citing prior commitments.

Mr. Youngkin’s campaign would not say whether he will attend, according to media reports. Before winning the GOP gubernatorial nomination earlier this year, Mr. Youngkin launched an election integrity task force. His campaign said at the time that he would “make election integrity a top priority.”

To be clear, Chris Piper, commissioner of the Virginia Department of Elections, announced in March that a statewide audit of the November 2020 presidential election “reaffirms” that the election process was secure and that the results are accurate. Democrat Joe Biden won the presidential election in Virginia.

To Mr. Adams, Mr. Youngkin, Ms. Sears and Mr. Miyares, who apparently want to perpetuate the Trump-driven lie about voter fraud, we say please take that B.S. and dump it in the trash where it belongs. Virginians have too many real issues to worry about and deal with other than a virus of the GOP’s making.

Specifically, Virginians must get a handle on the continuing deadly pandemic and the latest highly contagious variant. Only 54.2 percent of the population is fully vaccinated, infection rates are climbing in Virginia and elsewhere and schools are about to open, leaving our young people and their families vulnerable to another spread of the coronavirus.

We need to help families and businesses trying to climb back from the economic devastation of the pandemic. We also must work to assist the thousands of people currently at risk of eviction to get the financial help they need to stay in their homes.

We want our readers to be aware of the falsehoods being used to stir the uninformed and incite the hateful. And we urge our readers to reject any candidates who continue to perpetuate the lies, myths and misinformation of Mr. Trump, who wants nothing less than to destroy our nation and our democracy.

Keep your eyes and ears open during the coming weeks as the campaigns for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general get into full swing. Please watch and listen closely and make an informed choice about who will get your vote to lead Virginia into the future.