In last year’s midterm elections, a variety of far-right election deniers ran for secretary of state in their respective states, which was rather unsettling. It raised the prospect of far-right officials, who touted bizarre conspiracy theories, administering elections in key battlegrounds nationwide.
In most instances, these Republican candidates fell short, losing in Nevada, Arizona, and Michigan, for example.
But it’d be an exaggeration to say election deniers have failed to win any of these offices. MetroNews in West Virginia ran this report this week.
West Virginia’s chief elections officer, now a candidate for governor, has again said the 2020 presidential election was rigged. “The election was stolen, and it was stolen by the CIA,” Secretary of State Mac Warner, a Republican, said Thursday night during a MetroNews debate for gubernatorial candidates.
Yes, the man responsible for overseeing West Virginia’s system of elections argued, in apparent seriousness, that the Central Intelligence Agency secretly rigged the United States’ 2020 presidential election.
What’s more, Warner didn’t say this in some private setting, where he didn’t expect the public to hear him. Rather, the Republican official made this declaration during a televised debate.








