'All possible resources must be marshaled in the cause of fair, safe, and secure elections.'
Enacted last year by GOP-controlled state legislatures, these laws would not apply to federal elections if Senate Republicans—joined by Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema —hadn't used the filibuster last month to preserve and protect these anti-democracy laws.At the same time, unprecedented amounts of money are being poured into the usually quiet Secretary of State races this year.
That's because these offices oversee the administration of elections in their states and the winners of these jobs will oversee the 2024 presidential and congressional elections., contributions are three times higher for these offices in key battleground states than they were at this point in the 2018 election cycle and eight times higher than 2014.