These Democrats are challenging state legislators who rejected 2020 election results
Alan Smith ran as a write-in Democratic candidate in 2022 because he wanted answers from his state senator, Jake Hoffman, one of the 11 Arizona Republicans who signed a fake electoral certificate declaring that Donald Trump had won the state in 2020 after President Biden won the state by 10,457 votes.
"I did not want him unopposed. I wanted them to spend some money. I wanted him to have to put up a fight. I wanted him to try to explain himself," Smith said.
He didn't get that satisfaction, in large part because Hoffman did not debate him, so in 2024 Smith, 70, of Mesa is running again as the official Democratic nominee in the deep-red Republican district.
Smith is one of dozens of people across the country who are running longshot campaigns for local and state office in an effort to oust Republican elected officials who baselessly question the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, or who have interfered with certifying subsequent elections.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/14/election-results-skeptics-democrats-challenge/75061995007/