Michael Adams, who defended his state’s election system from claims of fraud, goes on to face Buddy Wheatley in November
Kentucky’s Republican secretary of state, who had earned widespread praise for increasing his state’s voter turnout during the coronavirus pandemic and for expanding opportunities to vote, won his primary on Tuesday.who align themselves with the growing faction within the GOP who believe elections are frequently rigged and stolen. Adams will now face Buddy Wheatley, a Democrat and former state representative, in November.
“I’m not surprised that I have a primary, but I also think in my gut that if these Republicans utilized early voting and absentee voting, then they’re not going to hold it against me that I implemented those things,” he said. Maricle has said he disagrees that the state’s elections are rigged, but he has maintained that voter fraud affects them.
Since taking office in 2020, Adams has worked with Beshear and the GOP-controlled legislature to expand absentee and early voting. During the height of the pandemic, he worked to open countywide polling supercenters in large venues. The work helped Kentucky see aAdams said his biggest reason for running was to protect the expansions he has made to voting.
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