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There are a number of elections happening across the country today, including in Kentucky, where a Republican secretary of state who has taken pride in expanding voter turnout is facing a challenge from within his party, the Guardian’s Kira Lerner reports:
Kentucky’s Republican secretary of state has earned widespread praise for increasing his state’s voter turnout during the coronavirus pandemic and for expanding opportunities to vote. He has also shot down conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and defended his state’s election system from claims of fraud, a stance that could cost him his job.
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