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It’s official: A candidate who denies the legitimacy of the 2020 election will be on November’s ballot to be the top election official in a major battleground state.
Kristina Karamo — a Michigan Republican who claimed without evidence that there was widespread voting fraud in 2020 — will be the party’s nominee for secretary of state, NPR’s Miles Parks reports. That position has extensive power to vet the cybersecurity of election machines, oversee audits and ensure elections are conducted in a trustworthy and transparent manner.
The nomination underscores the immense and enduring power of former president Donald Trump’s false election claims more than a year after he was defeated.
Karamo is the first election-denying secretary of state candidate to advance to her state’s general election, but she’s one of more than a dozen such candidates nationwide.
That’s prompted a surge of concern among election watchers. They fear those candidates, if victorious, could jeopardize election security through misguided decisions about equipment and audits and drive down the already faltering public faith in the electoral process.
Karamo, who has appeared at rallies linked with the extremist ideology QAnon, will face incumbent Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson in November. Benson faced widespread harassment for disputing false claims by Trump and...
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