The usually unnoticed position of secretary of state stands out among the numerous offices garnering interest on the ballot this Tuesday.
In the majority of states, the person in charge of managing the state’s voting system holds that position. Republicans have nominated candidates for that position in some of the key swing states of the country who favoured annulling the 2020 presidential election in order to keep Donald Trump in the White House.
All told, seven of the 22 Republican candidates for secretary of state, a position that oversees elections, have supported Trump’s efforts to thwart the will of the people and hold onto power in 2020.
“If they win, we’re going to have someone who’s run on a platform of election denial, saying, ‘Actually, elections are only legitimate when my candidate wins,’” said David Becker, executive director of The Center for Election Innovation & Research and co-author of “The Big Truth,” a book warning of the dangers of Trump’s election lies.
State Representative Mark Finchem from Arizona, who was present at the Trump rally on January 6, 2021, prior to the deadly attack on the U.S.
Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in that state in 2020 was not certified by Capitol, who is now running for secretary of state. Jim Marchant, the GOP candidate in Nevada, made the same pledge. In New Mexico, Republican secretary of state challenger Audrey Trujillo cheered on a failed appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court in 2020 to overturn Biden’s win.
In addition, despite winning Michigan by more than 154,000 votes, Republican Kristina Karamo maintains that Biden didn’t actually win the state.
Election spending has exploded in the races as a result of the election conspiracists’ candidacies, primarily from Democrats and their allies. They have bombarded the races with millions of dollars in ads pleading for voters to think carefully before entrusting such candidates with the job of running elections.
There are numerous other election conspiracy theorists who are almost certain to triumph on Tuesday night in less competitive states. State Representative Chuck Gray is the only candidate in Wyoming. After he won the GOP primary, the state’s election director resigned and the GOP-controlled state legislature mulled taking election administration away from the office but balked. Alabama state representative
In the staunchly conservative state, Wes Allen, the GOP nominee, supported a lawsuit that sought to overturn Biden’s victory but was later dismissed by the US Supreme Court.
Elections are not always under the secretary of state’s control. In some states, such as Pennsylvania, the governor appoints the secretary of state to manage voting. Doug Mastriano, the Republican candidate there, set up buses to take people to Trump’s Jan.
6 rally and has pledged to appoint someone who will purge the state’s voter rolls, requiring the roughly 8.8 million registered voters to re-register.
Republicans in Wisconsin want to change the bipartisan elections commissions’ oversight of elections. The state’s Democratic governor, Tony Evers, has blocked bills from the GOP-controlled legislature trying to wrest control of voting away from the commission.
Evers is facing Republican Tim Michels, a businessman backed by Trump who has his own plan for making the commission friendlier to Republicans.
Contrarily, many Republican incumbents defeated challengers to the 2020 election in primaries and rejected Trump’s attempts to annul the result.
The most notable instance is in Georgia, where Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger refused to “find” enough votes to declare Trump the winner of the state Biden actually won.
Raffensperger’s rejection enraged Trump, who enlisted a main rival who suffered a dreadful loss in the primary in May. On Tuesday, Raffensperger will compete against Democratic state senator Bee Nguyen.
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