(CNN)The Republican candidate aiming to run Nevada's elections has called to end mail voting by falsely claiming the voting method is rife with fraud. But public voting records reviewed by CNN's KFile show he voted by mail multiple times, including while living in one state and voting in another.
Jim Marchant, the GOP nominee for secretary of state, voted absentee by mail in Florida in three separate elections -- 2006, 2008 and 2010 — while he was living in Nevada. He moved to the Silver State in 2005, according to his secretary of state campaign biography, and did not vote there until 2012, according to public records.
It is not illegal to vote in one state while living in another. But the practice stands in contrast with Marchant's stance against mail voting, which he has aggressively campaigned to eliminate.
The Trump-endorsed nominee heads the America First Secretary of State Coalition, a group of election deniers seeking state election posts who regurgitate election conspiracies. Their platform calls to eliminate mail voting, implement an "aggressive voter roll clean-up" and move to single-day voting.
Marchant also voted by mail in Nevada's 2018 special election and 2020 primary, in which he won the Republican nomination for the state's 4th Congressional District. In that election, he encouraged voters using mail ballots to "be sure and follow the directions perfectly. We would not want your vote to be thrown out because of a mistake."
Months later, however, Marchant...
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