Posted on 08/05/2022 7:45:47 AM PDT by Jacquerie
Mark Finchem, an Arizona state representative who has said he would not have certified the 2020 election, won the Republican primary for secretary of state on Tuesday, making him the latest election denier to move closer to controlling his state’s election system.
Across the country, Republicans who say the 2020 election was rigged are vying to be elected secretary of state, a position that would grant them immense control over their states’ election systems.
As of July 28, at least 20 election deniers are running for secretary of state in 16 states, according to States United Action, an organization that tracks these races.
Races for secretary of state since 2020 have gone from low-profile contests to ones in which massive amounts of money have been spent on candidates who have a higher profile than ever before.
As November approaches, candidates in Arizona and three other critical states — Michigan, Minnesota, and Nevada — continue to claim that Donald Trump won the 2020 election and have vowed to erect barriers to voting. All the candidates have raised enough money to be competitive.
They’ve all won the Republican nomination and will appear on the ballot in November. They all have close ties to Trump allies and many of them have been endorsed by Trump.
Here’s how four candidates are campaigning and what they say about the future of elections in their states:
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Election Deniers = Deplorables = Trump MAGA Supporters. Might as well call them Progressive deniers.
“Election deniers” taking on the election liars!
This is all such BS.
As a CPA I’ve run many elections for clients’ board of directors, and volunteered to serve as treasurer for dozens of clubs and small organizations where offices and policies are put to a vote.
In my forty years of running elections, I’ve never had one single case where common sense procedures were ignored or bypassed - and there has never been a single problem.
Even my high school kids’ elections for class president, etc., are always run without a hitch.
Everyone knows there is a fixed time to vote. Everyone knows people vote in person. Everyone knows there needs to be an accurate list of who may vote. Everyone knows voters need to prove they are who they say they are. Everyone knows there has to be a way to prevent people from voting more than once. Everyone knows the entire process must be observed by representatives of each candidate.
It’s not rocket science - it’s common sense. Kindergarteners can run an election.
...have vowed to erect barriers to ILLEGAL voting.
Fixed it for you, Kira, not that you would ever admit that what you wrote is pure BS.
Kindergarteners can run an election.
But, but, but, the wrong person might win!
Kira Lerner is the democracy reporter for the nonprofit States Newsroom, where she covers voting, elections, redistricting, and efforts to subvert democracy. Before joining States Newsroom, Kira was managing editor of Votebeat, a pop-up newsroom launched to cover election administration and voting before and after the 2020 election. She has also covered voting rights, criminal justice, and civil rights issues for outlets including The Appeal and ThinkProgress. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Guardian, Slate, and Talking Points Memo, among other outlets. Kira has a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and is a native of the Washington, D.C. area.
Where does this commie rag get its funding from?
“white supremacists”
“militia extremists”
and now, “election deniers”!!
All epithets applied to normal, patriotic, American citizens who are concerned about the destruction of our nation and the rush towards the New World Order.
CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, etc = Soros Propaganda Machine
I’m aware of what the mainstream news media is doing. For starts, they are completely ignoring the processes of Voter Authentication for Mail-In Ballot, Early Voting, Photo IDs, etc. Haven’t they ever heard of the problem that liquor-service establishments happen in college towns with Authentication processes due to so many fake id(s)?
Not “election deniers,” rather “election integrity skeptics.”
I didn’t see any such alarm when Media-Dem Party activists were worming their way into the election system, to say nothing about DA slots across the country. We’ve seen stolen elections and massive increases in crime in their wake.
Need to work on PA, GA, WI and by "critical", they mean critical for future steals.
Go Trump, we need to do our own thing to put emphasis on these SOS and Da’s like Soros and the Dems, I think maybe we are learning a little.
We need to make it part of the state constitutions that voting MUST happen in-person, and WITH ID, and that such ID must certify that the person is a legal citizen.
The highest court in Wisconsin has spoken.
‘Elections that violate the State Legislatures laws illegitimate because they do not elect people with the consent of the governed’
When election laws are broken, it’s not an election, it’s treason. How many states violated their own election laws? Virtually every swing state. The current administration and Congress rules without the consent of the governed.
It’s a government of the government, by the government, for the government.
The earth is round but Libs have flat heads.
You can fool most of the democrats all the time.
“... and have vowed to erect barriers to voting.”
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