A Lee Enterprises review of its west region found four candidates for secretary of state offices who openly have denied or cast doubt on Joe Biden’s victory. Among them is Republican Mark Finchem in Arizona.
Rep. Liz Cheney touched on what she called a “key lesson” from the Capitol attack investigation in her opening statement for the Jan. 6 Select Committee’s last hearing.
Federal election security officials under former President Donald Trump announced that the election Biden won was the “most secure in American history”, with no evidence any voting system was compromised. Courts consistently have turned away baseless allegations of widespread voter fraud. Jim Marchant — running for secretary of state in Nevada — leads the coalition. Marchant as recently as this month told Trump supporters at a rally that he and his coalition of secretary of state candidates will"fix the whole country" if elected and that Trump will be president again in 2024, according to the Guardian.
Bruce Schulman is a U.S. historian at Boston University who says the risk to democratic institutions and traditions must be taken seriously. Uscinski said what’s different about the 2020 election is that the majority of Republicans now hold that belief because of the echo chamber cultivated by Trump, his allies in Congress and conservative media outlets.
She thinks politicians who tout that the election was stolen are inflicting the most damage in state Legislatures, where — unlike state election offices — election codes and rules can be changed to make it tougher to vote. He said the Republican Party should take stronger control over who it allows to run in its primaries under the GOP banner.
“He built a base for himself that is less about traditional Republicanism and conservatism and much more about antagonisms toward the political establishment as a whole,” Uscinski said. “And oftentimes those antagonisms are expressed as conspiracy theories.” Bryant said what would boost confidence but largely goes under-reported or unnoticed is how IT departments and election offices are keenly aware of the evolving election landscape and are updating to handle it.
“Some part — I can’t say how much — of the explanation for how people believe claims of widespread fraud despite the lack of evidence is that ‘fraud’ designates who voted, not how they voted,” Schulman said. Candidate Henry Clay gave his support to John Quincy Adams, who defeated the biggest vote-getter — Andrew Jackson — and Clay became Adams’ secretary of state.
State Rep. Chuck Gray won the Republican nomination in August for secretary of state and is running unopposed in the general election. Gray has called Biden’s election “fraudulent” and “illegitimate” on Twitter. The final decision on whether to do so remains in the hands of the seven clerks in counties that provide ballot drop boxes.
She has aggressively lobbied for legislation similar to Republican-backed legislation elsewhere in the country to improve “election integrity” and security. Opponents have said the measures, including tighter voter ID requirements and earlier registration deadlines, limit access to voting. “Local media are the chief source of information for voters and we need to ensure that the media are fully informed on the election process and that they have open access to election officials and results,” Cool says on his website.Lawrence Wasden, the state’s longest-serving attorney general, was beaten in the Republican primary by former U.S. Congressman Raul Labrador.
North DakotaIndependent Charles Tuttle, vying to be North Dakota’s secretary of state, is a Trump supporter who has said “Trump won” the 2020 election. Powell said North Dakota has a “secure voting system” and that he doesn’t have “major changes” from a procedural viewpoint.NebraskaRepublican incumbent Bob Evnen is running unopposed for secretary of state.
OklahomaOklahoma’s chief state election official is the secretary of the Oklahoma State Election Board, which is a position appointed by the leader of the Senate — a Republican.
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