Republicans in some heavily conservative states won their campaigns for secretary of state last year after claiming they would make sweeping changes aimed at keeping fraud out of elections.
So far, their efforts to make good on their promises are mixed, in some cases because their rhetoric has bumped up against skepticism from members of their own party.
After defeating the incumbent secretary of state for the Republican nomination last summer, Morales dialed back his description of Joe Biden's 2020 presidential election as a "scam" and his calls for tighter voting laws. That push included cutting Indiana's 28-day early voting period in half and requiring new voters to prove their U.S. citizenship when registering.
During remarks at an early January inaugural ceremony, Morales continued his campaign theme of promoting "election integrity" without giving specifics.Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston, also a Republican, said recently he had talked with Morales and told him he was "comfortable" with the state's election laws.
Allen repeated a debunked claim calling the 31-state Electronic Registration Information Center organization a "Soros-funded, leftist group," a reference to liberal billionaire George Soros. The voter registration data-sharing partnership is designed to maintain accurate voter rolls by identifying people who have moved or died. It's funded by states after receiving initial startup support from The Pew Charitable Trusts.
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