Despite calling for the elimination of mail voting, Marchant voted by mail numerous times
According to a new CNN report, Jim Marchant, Republican candidate for Nevada secretary of state, voted by mail multiple times in Florida elections, despite living in Nevada. Marchant has long spread false conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and has called for the elimination of absentee voting, despite voting by mail numerous times–even as recently as 2020.
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Jim Marchant 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.
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Marchant 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.
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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.
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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.”
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Months later, however, Marchant falsely declared widespread voter fraud in the 2020 general election and cast himself as a false victim of voter fraud after he lost his congressional bid to Democratic Rep. Steven Horsford.
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