Election skeptic Wes Allen wins Alabama GOP secretary of state nomination

Alabama state Rep. Wes Allen received the Republican nomination in an Alabama runoff election for secretary of state. Allen has questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 election, and will he win November’s normal election, he would change into the state’s high elections official.

Allen defeated State Auditor Jim Zeigler within the runoff election, which was prompted when neither secured 50% of the vote within the state’s major election final month. In that race, Zeigler received about 43% of the vote, whereas Allen received about 40%.

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Zeigler was a member of the America First Secretary of State Coalition, a bunch of candidates that query the legitimacy of the 2020 election. He was additionally endorsed by Trump ally and election skeptic Mike Lindell, the founding father of the corporate MyPillow.

A number of different candidates from the group have received Republican nominations for the position in different states, together with Jim Marchant in Nevada and Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano, who was included within the group as a result of Pennsylvania’s governor appoints the commonwealth’s secretary of state. Nevertheless, in Georgia, a state former President Donald Trump labored to overturn that was a key a part of his newfound give attention to down-ballot races, his chosen candidate, Rep. Jody Hice, misplaced a major problem to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who sparked the ire of Trump when he licensed the state’s election outcomes for President Joe Biden, who received the state’s 2020 election.

Zeigler informed the Related Press in an interview, “I’m not an election denier. I’m an election questioner.”

“There are lots of questions concerning the 2020 election,” Zeigler mentioned.

Allen argued he had extra expertise for the position than Zeigler as a result of he beforehand oversaw elections on the county stage. As a legislator, he tried to ban some voting practices the state permits, comparable to curbside voting.

Allen will face Democratic nominee Pamela J. Laffitte in November.