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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Tim Reid

Factbox-U.S. election deniers lose bids in key midterm races

FILE PHOTO: Arizona's Republican secretary of state candidate Mark Finchem and Nevada's Republican secretary of state candidate Jim Marchant attend the Florida Election Integrity Public Hearing event, in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. September 10, 2022. REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo

Republicans who back former President Donald Trump's false claim the 2020 election was stolen were their party's nominees for secretary of state in battleground states where if elected they stood to play a decisive role in choosing a U.S. president.

Voting rights groups were focused on secretary of state races in Arizona, Nevada and Michigan, and said victory by these Republican candidates could have threatened both the integrity of the next presidential election and U.S. democracy itself:

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