A no voter fraud sign is displayed by a protester in support of former President Donald Trump at the Maricopa County Elections Department office on November 4, 2020 in Phoenix, Arizona. | Courtney Pedroza/Getty Images
06/13/2022 04:31 AM EDT
Nevada Republicans are about to decide whether the leader of a Trump-aligned group of election conspiracy theorists will be one step away from becoming the battleground state’s chief elections officer.
In the past two years, former state Assemblymember Jim Marchant lost a congressional race by 5 points — then sued unsuccessfully to overturn the defeat. He said he wouldn’t have certified President Joe Biden’s 2-point victory in Nevada had he been secretary of state. And he has pushed to do away with ballot-counting machines and instead count votes only by hand, which officials say would make tallying election results slower, more expensive and less accurate.
Marchant, one of several Republicans running in Tuesday’s primary for secretary of state, has also been a leader of the “America First Secretary of State Coalition” — a collection of like-minded candidates running in states across the country. Marchant arranged a “private strategy session” in Las Vegas in May 2021 to coordinate, according to the group’s website, and he regularly promotes the effort in far-right media outlets including Steve Bannon’s podcast.
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