Who will run the 2024 election? They’re on your ballot in 2022.
The focus on secretaries of State has been magnified by Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories about the 2020 election he lost.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/18/2022-secretary-of-state-elections-00025564
Politico.
Twenty-five states will elect their chief election officers this November — a slate of contests already drawing outsize attention, money and competition as former President Donald Trump continues undermining the results of the last national election.
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The jobs vary from state to state. But many secretaries of State (and a handful of other posts with similar job descriptions) play a role in certifying election results, along with setting policies that govern election procedures in states including a number of closely divided presidential battlegrounds.
All three of Trump’s endorsees — state Rep. Mark Finchem in Arizona, Rep. Jody Hice in Georgia and community college professor Kristina Karamo in Michigan — have wholeheartedly embraced the former president’s lies about the 2020 election.
Arizona is an open-seat race after current Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, opted to run for governor. It is expected to be one of the tightest races in November.
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