There are a lot of election tricks being played — all designed to block people from voting. Responsible Secretaries of State have responsibility for keeping elections honest, but this year, some of them running for office find they are running against Trump’s minions who support the BIG LIE of the 2020 election, i.e., Trump’s “Stop the Steal” campaign, that has been totally discredited for lack of evidence.
But five states — AZ, NV, NM, MI, and MN, all have Republican candidates for Secretary of State who are election-deniers. Worse yet, at least in AZ and NV, the candidates have been sucked into the fantasies of QAnon. The AZ candidate, state legislator Mark Finchen, even took part in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.
In short, these people are dangerous enemies of our democracy.
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, who also chairs the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State, has been specific in her remarks, saying that “Democratic SOS candidates are feeling pressure to defeat “big lie” candidates who support Trump—those who will ‘suppress the vote, destabilize elections, and push out further lies.'”