How Secretary of State Races Became Key Focus in Election Integrity Battle

State secretary-of-state elections were of little interest before 2022 except for those most engaged in statehouse politics. Even the name has a cement reverb.

But former President Donald Trump’s adamant position about the legitimacy of the 2020 election thrust these usually obscure contests into the spotlight. Several of the 27 secretary-of-state races in 2022 illustrated sharp divides in elections administration between Republicans and Democrats, and exposed fault lines within the GOP.

Midterm state secretary-of-state races suddenly became acutely partisan with the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State and Republican Secretaries of State Committee collectively funneling more than $75 million into the campaigns, three times more than in 2018.

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