MARK FINCHEM

As the U.S. barrels toward the next presidential election, the election conspiracy movement that mushroomed after the last one shows no signs of slowing down.

Mark Finchem, who ran for secretary of state, was rebuked by the court for his ‘groundless’ claims of fraud in loss to Adrian Fontes

An Arizona judge has sanctioned former Republican secretary of state candidate Mark Finchem and his attorney over a lawsuit challenging his loss in last year’s election.

An Arizona judge has sanctioned former Republican secretary of state candidate Mark Finchem and his attorney over a lawsuit challenging his loss in last year's election, saying the suit "was groundless and not brought in good faith." Finchem's suit raised unsupported claims that his loss was marred by misconduct and demanded the results be set aside and the election redone. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Melissa Julian tossed out Finchem’s lawsuit in December.

Election losses by Republican candidates last year who denied the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential results have only added fuel to voting conspiracies in rural Arizona.

Lawsuits filed last week take a different tone than the rhetoric being pushed publicly.

Kari Lake promises to keep fighting the election in court. Lawyers that might help her would be wise to consider what a federal judge just did.

A federal judge ordered sanctions against the attorneys of Kari Lake and Mark Finchem in their lawsuit against voting machines.

Cochise County certified the Nov. 8 vote as a judge sanctioned lawyers for Kari Lake and Mark Finchem over their failed suit to force a hand count.

Republican officials in a rural Arizona county have refused to certify the 2022 election despite no evidence of anything wrong with the count.

Republican candidate posts video on Twitter vowing to ‘fight on’ claiming tens of thousands of voters disenfranchised

Republican Blake Masters called Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly to concede in the Arizona Senate race.

The president said that this election was about democracy, and the voters agreed.

Democrat Cisco Aguilar has been elected as Nevada’s next secretary of state.

It was the latest loss for GOP candidates who campaigned on former president Donald Trump’s false insistence the 2020 election was stolen.

On Tuesday, equipment malfunctioned at scores of polling places in Maricopa County, already a hotbed of election denialism. Would local officials be able to reassure the public?

Democratic candidate Adrian Fontes has defeated Republican state Rep. Mark Finchem, a 2020 election skeptic, to become Arizona's secretary of state.

The Democrat narrowly beat Republican Mark Finchem, who has falsely called the 2020 election "irredeemably compromised."

Democrat Adrian Fontes won the top elections post in Arizona on Friday, defeating a Republican rival who attended the Jan. 6 rally that preceded the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol and who said he would not have certified Joe Biden’s win in the state. Fontes, who formerly oversaw parts of the election system in Arizona’s most populous county, had said Republican Mark Finchem represented a danger to democracy if he had won. Finchem had emerged as one of the most prominent Republicans running for secretary of state positions around the country who falsely claimed that Biden was not elected legitimately.

Republicans who backed Donald Trump’s failed efforts to overturn the 2020 election have lost key races to oversee elections in some competitive states.

All 50 states are hosting midterm elections that will determine the balance of power in Washington and state capitals across the nation.

Authorities are investigating an envelope that reportedly contained suspicious white powder that was opened at the Phoenix campaign headquarters of Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake.

In just about every key state, they're running behind their fellow Republicans. That doesn't mean they can't win; it does suggest the effort to thwart them is making a difference.

Researchers say the days following the election may pose a greater risk of violence than Election Day itself, particularly in locations where vote counting drags on.

Days after taking over Twitter and a week before the U.S. midterm elections, billionaire Elon Musk has positioned himself as moderator-in-chief of one of the most important social media platforms in American politics.

The majority of candidates running this year for the state posts that oversee elections oppose the idea of hand counting ballots.

In Arizona, the bedrock issue of free and fair elections is on the ballot as Trump acolytes vie to seize the state's election machinery.

The Oath Keeper hoping to run Arizona’s elections is getting outspent almost 50-to-1 and makes few press campaign appearances. He still might pull it off.

A pair of elected Republican officials in Arizona tell 60 Minutes about their experiences combatting election falsehoods.

At least 10 Republican candidates who won their primaries for statewide or federal office this year have claimed they were in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021.

With just two weeks to go until the midterm elections, some voters said they're being intimidated at ballot boxes in Arizona.

The Republicans running for Arizona’s three top statewide offices have said they wouldn't have signed off on the 2020 presidential results if they were in office at the time of that election.

Campaign spending is setting records in races to oversee state elections.

The outcome of Arizona's election is "important for the nation and for the future functioning of our constitutional republic," Cheney said.

Mark Finchem told CBS News that Joe Biden is "apparently" president.

And 90% of federal departments should be eliminated, urges Trump's first national security adviser. "Lock 'em up," he says at an Arizona campaign event.

Secretary of state candidate Mark Finchem's rhetoric about fraud has not moderated at all since he won the Republican primary — nor has it gotten more accurate.

On the morning of Sept. 23, residents of Chicago, Illinois, were able to catch the sun rising during "Chicagohenge," where the rising sun aligns with Chicago's street grid.

It’s a crucial job, but not one that many Americans have heard of. Here’s what to know about the races that could have big consequences for how our democracy works.

Four Republicans who have promoted false claims about the 2020 presidential election and are seeking to overhaul how elections are run by becoming their state’s chief election official say they are fighting against a corrupt system.

Four Republicans seeking to overhaul how elections are run by becoming their state’s chief election official said Saturday they were fighting against a corrupt system — even pointing a finger at mysterious forces within their own party. The candidates -- Arizona’s Mark Finchem, Michigan’s Kristina Karamo, Nevada’s Jim Marchant and New Mexico’s Audrey Trujillo -- appeared at a conference inside a South Florida hotel ballroom that featured numerous speakers falsely claiming the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump. “Our biggest enemy is our own party,” said Marchant, a businessman and former state lawmaker who was among Trump’s most ardent supporters challenging President Joe Biden's 2020 win in Nevada.

An Arizona judge has ordered three Republicans to pay $75,000 in attorney fees for filing a defamation suit against a former Democratic lawmaker “primarily for purposes of harassment.”.

An Arizona judge has ordered three Republicans, including secretary of state nominee Mark Finchem and U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar, to pay $75,000 in attorney fees for filing a defamation suit against a former Democratic lawmaker “primarily for purposes of harassment.” The Republicans filed the lawsuit last year against former Democratic state Rep. Charlene Fernandez after she called for an investigation of their roles in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

A federal judge has refused to require that Arizona officials count ballots by hand in November.

There are backstops in place — for now — protecting our elections if Lake, Mark Finchem or another official went rogue and refused to certify the results.

The Arizona outcome is especially consequential given the role the state played in the 2020 election and its aftermath.

The Trump-endorsed Arizona lawmaker who won the GOP nomination for secretary of state is the latest candidate to advance to the November ballot for a post overseeing state elections while denying the results of the last one.

Mark Finchem was at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and is a longstanding member of the right-wing extremist group the Oath Keepers.

In Arizona, three key statewide races have no incumbents, and former President Trump has played a big role in endorsing Republicans for those offices.

An Arizona lawmaker who embraces election conspiracies and was endorsed by former President Donald Trump has won the Republican primary for the top elections post in the presidential battleground.

An Arizona lawmaker endorsed by former President Donald Trump and another lawmaker who also believes the 2020 election should be overturned are among four Republicans vying to be the top election officer in Arizona.

Despite a discredited election review and false claims about the 2020 election, this year's primary, coming up on Tuesday, isn't all that different in Arizona's biggest county.

War Room regular Mark Finchem could be running the state's next elections.

The Arizona Supreme Court rejected Monday an effort to disqualify three Republican lawmakers from this year's ballot because of their alleged roles in planning or attending the rally that led to the unprecedented attack on Congress on Jan. 6, 2021. The ruling means U.S. Reps. Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs and state Rep. Mark Finchem remain on the primary ballot. Gosar and Biggs are seeking reelection and Finchem is running to try to become Secretary of State, Arizona’s chief election officer.

Mark Finchem, who is running for Arizona secretary of state, pushed false claims about the election and met with Rudy Giuliani in November 2020.

GOP lawmakers in at least four states are pressing to require high-tech security features on ballots in an attempt to make as hard to counterfeit as passports or currency.

The committee is investigating a plan to send “false” slates of Trump electors to Washington.

The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection has subpoenaed six more people, including former Trump campaign members and state lawmakers.

If the NFL is paying any attention to what's going on the Arizona Legislature – and it should – it should move the 2023 Super Bowl out of Arizona.

On a solemn day when the country marks the one-year anniversary of the attack on democracy, Rep. Mark Finchem shows us once again who he really is.

An NPR analysis found at least 15 Republican candidates for Secretary of State offices in 2022 who doubt Joe Biden's 2020 victory.

Supporters of Donald Trump are trying to remove some of the guardrails that stopped him from overturning the 2020 presidential election.

Normally, more involvement in democracy is a good thing. But officials worry people could be motivated to take their election watcher roles too far.

Former local news anchor Kari Lake earned Trump's endorsement after touting the false claims that Joe Biden stole the 2020 election.

Former President Donald Trump is aiming to exert his influence at all levels of the Republican Party as he considers another presidential run.

A report released this week in Arizona's largest county falsely claims to have uncovered some 173,000 “lost” votes and 96,000 “ghost votes” in a private door-to-door canvassing effort, supposedly rendering the 2020 election in Maricopa County “uncertifiable.” Report author Liz Harris, an unsuccessful Republican legislative candidate and a real estate agent in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler, declined to respond to specific questions but said a more comprehensive version of the report would be released soon. CLAIM: An estimated 173,104 “missing or lost” votes and an estimated 96,389 “ghost” votes cast by people who didn’t appear to live at their voter registration addresses indicate that the 2020 election in Maricopa County included irregularities and is “uncertifiable.”

Democracy is being poisoned by people who care only about winning.

Whatever happened to Medicare-for-all, what's going on as Trump heads back to Arizona, and what's missing from summer congressional town halls.

There is no shortage of job openings for local election officials in Michigan. After facing threats and intimidation during the 2020 presidential election and its aftermath, and now the potential of new punishments in certain states, county officials who run elections are quitting or retiring early. The once quiet job of election administration has become a political minefield thanks to the baseless claims of widespread fraud that continue to be pushed by many in the Republican Party.

Police are investigating who put up a controversial sign outside of a Popeyes drive-thru. Claims about it online lack important context.

Denmark's public broadcaster cited nine unnamed sources in a report on the relationship between the NSA and the Danish intelligence service.

Tasos Katopodis/GettyDonald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn—now firmly entrenched in the lunatic fringe—told a QAnon conference this weekend that he supports a violent military coup in the U.S. Video from the Dallas confab posted on social media shows Flynn was asked by an audience member “why what happened in Myanmar can’t happen here?” As the audience of conspiracy theorists cheered, Flynn responded: “No reason. I mean, it should happen here.” Myanmar’s military in February seized control of the country, detaining leaders Aung San Suu Kyi and Win Myint, claiming their election was fraudulent. The junta has since killed 800 people in a brutal crackdown. Flynn’s public support for an American version had critics on social media calling for the former Army general to be court-martialed.Here is the video of former national security advisor Michael Flynn saying that he thinks a coup like the coup in Myanmar should happen in the US. pic.twitter.com/7mGYjfXg18— Mamie 😌 (@MC_Hyperbole) May 30, 2021 Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.