If they win, given that they're in swing states, the big unknown is going to be the 2024 election. What could they do in those jobs to upend the electoral process? They can't change the laws automatically, but they can make things much, much harder to happen. Many of these candidates also say they want to totally erase the state's current voter rolls and start fresh.
A quartet of 2020 election deniers are running for secretary of state this year in key swing states, raising questions about whether they could fairly administer the 2024 presidential election.
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, fact-checked by Victoria Dominguez and Serena Solin, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and edited by Matt Collette and Noel King, who also hosted.
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