Kris William Kobach is an American lawyer and politician who is the Attorney General of Kansas. He previously served as the 31st Secretary of State of Kansas. A former Chairman of the Kansas Republican Party,Kobach came to national prominence over his support for immigration controls,including involvement in the implementation of high-profile anti-illegal immigration ordinances in various American cities. Kobach is also known for his calls for stronger voter ID laws in the United States,reinstating the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System,and his advocacy for anti-abortion legislation. He has made claims about the extent of voter fraud in the United States that studies and fact-checkers have concluded are false or unsubstantiated.
Colin Van Ostern,is an American businessman and politician who served on the New Hampshire Executive Council from 2013 to 2017,where he represented the state's second district. He is a member of the Democratic Party,and was the Democratic nominee for Governor of New Hampshire in 2016. He was a candidate for a two-year term as New Hampshire Secretary of State in the New Hampshire General Court's 2018 election,which he lost to incumbent Bill Gardner.
Frank LaRose is an American politician. He was elected Secretary of State of Ohio in 2019. He was a Republican member of the Ohio State Senate for two terms,from January 2011 to January 2019.
The 2016 United States Senate election in New Hampshire was held November 8,2016,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of New Hampshire,concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. The primary election to select the candidates who appeared on the general election ballot took place on September 13,2016.
Christopher Thomas Sununu is an American politician and engineer who has served as the 82nd governor of New Hampshire since 2017. A member of the Republican Party,Sununu served on the New Hampshire Executive Council from 2011 to 2017.
Voter impersonation,also sometimes called in-person voter fraud,is a form of electoral fraud in which a person who is eligible to vote in an election votes more than once,or a person who is not eligible to vote does so by voting under the name of an eligible voter. In the United States,voter ID laws have been enacted in a number of states by Republican legislatures and governors since 2010 with the purported aim of preventing voter impersonation. Existing research and evidence shows that voter impersonation is extremely rare. Between 2000 and 2014,there were only 31 documented instances of voter impersonation. There is no evidence that it has changed the result of any election. In April 2020,a voter fraud study covering 20 years by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found the level of mail-in ballot fraud "exceedingly rare" since it occurs only in "0.00006 percent" of individual votes nationally,and,in one state,"0.000004 percent —about five times less likely than getting hit by lightning in the United States."
The 2016 New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary was held on Tuesday February 9. As per tradition,it was the first primary and second nominating contest overall to take place in the cycle. Bernie Sanders defeated Hillary Clinton in the primary by a margin of more than 22% in the popular vote. Sanders claimed 15 delegates to Clinton's 9.
The 2016 United States presidential election in New Hampshire was held on Tuesday,November 8,2016,as part of the 2016 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. New Hampshire voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote,pitting the Republican Party's nominee,businessman Donald Trump,and running mate Indiana Governor Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee,former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,and her running mate Virginia Senator Tim Kaine. New Hampshire has four electoral votes in the Electoral College.
John Robert "Jay" Ashcroft is an American attorney,engineer and politician serving as the 40th and current Secretary of State of Missouri since 2017. A member of the Republican Party,he is the son of former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft.
The 2018 New Hampshire gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018,to elect the governor of New Hampshire. Incumbent Republican Governor Chris Sununu won re-election to a second term,defeating former state senator Molly Kelly. Sununu was the first incumbent Republican to win reelection as governor since Steve Merrill was reelected in 1994.
Dave Williams is an American far-right politician from Colorado Springs,Colorado. A Republican,Williams represented Colorado House of Representatives District 15,which encompassed Colorado Springs and Cimarron Hills in El Paso County.
The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity,also called the Voter Fraud Commission,was a Presidential Commission established by Donald Trump that ran from May 11,2017,to January 3,2018. The Trump administration said the commission would review claims of voter fraud,improper registration,and voter suppression. The establishment of the commission followed Trump's false claim that millions of illegal immigrants had voted in the 2016 presidential election,costing him the popular vote. Vice President Mike Pence was chosen as chair of the commission and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach was its vice chair and day-to-day administrator.
Joyner v. Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity is a federal case brought before the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The plaintiffs,including Arthenia Joyner,the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida,and others,sought to enjoin the State of Florida from transferring voter records to the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity.
Bradford Jay Raffensperger is an American politician,businessman,and civil engineer,serving as the Secretary of State of Georgia since 2019. A member of the Republican Party,he previously served in the Georgia House of Representatives,representing District 50.
The 2020 United States presidential election in New Hampshire was held on Tuesday,November 3,2020,as part of the 2020 United States presidential election in which all 50 states and the District of Columbia participated. New Hampshire voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote,pitting the Republican Party's nominees,incumbent President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence,against the Democratic Party's nominees,former Vice President Joe Biden and his running mate,Senator Kamala Harris. New Hampshire has four electoral votes in the Electoral College.
The 2018 New Hampshire Senate election was held on November 6,2018,concurrently with the elections for the New Hampshire House of Representatives,to elect members to the 166th New Hampshire General Court. All 24 seats in the New Hampshire Senate were up for election. It resulted in Democrats gaining control of both chambers of the New Hampshire General Court,ending the total control of New Hampshire's state government,that Republicans had held in New Hampshire since the 2016 state elections.
The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire were held on November 8,2022,to elect the two U.S. representatives from the state of New Hampshire,one from each of the state's two congressional districts.
Postal voting played an important role in the 2020 United States elections,with many voters reluctant to vote in person during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The election was won by Joe Biden,the Democratic candidate. The Republican candidate President Donald Trump made numerous false claims of widespread fraud arising from postal voting,despite nearly-universal agreement to the contrary,with overwhelming amounts of supporting evidence,by the mainstream media,fact-checkers,election officials,and the courts.
Following the 2020 United States presidential election and the unsuccessful attempts by Donald Trump and various other Republican officials to overturn it,Republican lawmakers initiated a sweeping effort to make voting laws more restrictive within several states across the country. According to the Brennan Center for Justice,as of October 4,2021,more than 425 bills that would restrict voting access have been introduced in 49 states—with 33 of these bills enacted across 19 states so far. The bills are largely centered around limiting mail-in voting,strengthening voter ID laws,shortening early voting,eliminating automatic and same-day voter registration,curbing the use of ballot drop boxes,and allowing for increased purging of voter rolls. Republicans in at least eight states have also introduced bills that would give lawmakers greater power over election administration after they were unsuccessful in their attempts to overturn election results in swing states won by Democratic candidate Joe Biden in the 2020 election. The efforts garnered press attention and public outrage from Democrats,and by 2023 Republicans had adopted a more "under the radar" approach to achieve their goals.
David M. Scanlan is an American politician and election official serving as the 54th Secretary of State of New Hampshire. He assumed office as Acting Secretary of State upon the resignation of Bill Gardner on January 10,2022. He was elected to a new two-year term as Secretary of State on December 7,2022. He previously served as Deputy Secretary of State of New Hampshire since 2002 and was a Republican member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1984 to 2002,becoming Majority Leader of the House in his final term.
