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Miles Parks

Election deniers performed especially poorly in races to oversee voting in key states

Brad Raffensperger Mark Finchem Donald Trump Republican Republican Party NPR Adrian Fontes Bee Nguyen Kimberly Yee Arizona
Jim Marchant, center, GOP nominee for secretary of state in Nevada, lost his election and also underperformed fellow Republicans running for U.S. senator and governor. (John Locher/AP)

Over nearly two years, the political future of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger had looked somewhere between uncertain and untenable.

In 2020, sitting President Donald Trump called him an "enemy of the people" after Trump lost Georgia and the election. Then Raffensperger, who refused Trump's request to find votes, faced a primary challenge this year from a Republican congressman who voted not to certify election results on Jan. 6, 2021.

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