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There is no evidence that widespread election fraud occurred in the 2022 race for Nevada secretary of state.

At a forum for GOP Senate candidates Thursday, former secretary of state candidate Jim Marchant implied that there was cheating involved in his electoral defeat, citing a 20,000-vote lead he held at one point during ballot counting.

While Marchant led by around 20,000 votes the day after the election, there were significant votes outstanding in Nevada’s most populous counties, which lean Democratic. Vote counting in Nevada took days because mail-in ballots that were postmarked by Election Day could be received through the fourth day after Election Day.

Cisco Aguilar, the Democratic nominee, won the race by more than 20,000 votes after more votes came in from Clark and Washoe counties.

Aguilar has maintained repeatedly that there was no widespread fraud in any Nevada race in 2022.