Kentucky’s Republican secretary of state, Michael Adams, vows that he won’t play ball with election deniers.
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He doesn’t want to remove the state from ERIC, an interstate database of voter information that has been targeted by conspiracy theorists. And he believes hand-counting ballots, as one opponent has suggested, “would be a disaster.”Adams, a first-term incumbent, will face two challengers in Tuesday’s Republican primary for secretary of state.
“The other lesson I’ve learned from what happened to my colleagues in other states — Republicans who are incumbents in this office — is if you feed the tiger, it still eats you. If you cave and get into these conspiracy theories, all it does is validate them,” he said. “You don’t get any respect or love for what you did, if you cave, they still eat you alive. … I’m not going to fall for that.”who said last month“He’s a conservative Republican. He’s run clean elections in this state.
Adams took office in 2020. Soon after, the coronavirus made congregating at the polls dangerous, and Adams teamed up with Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, to expand voting access through joint emergency powers. They expanded mail voting and opened countywide polling supercenters in large venues.
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