11-9-22 secretary of state races

Races for secretary of state offices were some of the most consequential contests on the ballot in Tuesday’s election. Half the 22 Republicans running for the positions that oversee elections have repeated former President Donald Trump’s misinformation that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him. Seven supported Trump’s attempts to overturn the will of the people and remain in power. Some of those Republicans were nominated for the post in some of the nation’s most pivotal swing states, including Arizona, Michigan and Nevada. By comparison, some Republican incumbents in Georgia and elsewhere who rebuffed Trump’s efforts to overturn the election won primaries against those who questioned that race.  In Wisconsin, the state’s bipartisan elections commissions oversees elections, but some Republicans want to change that. The state’s Democratic governor, Tony Evers, has blocked bills from the GOP-controlled legislature trying to wrest control of voting away from the commission.