but narrowly lost his re-election campaign for Assembly District 37 to Shea Backus, a Democrat, by a vote of 14,222 to 14,087. 2020 congressional race Marchant ran for the U.S. House to represent Nevada's 4th congressional district in 2020. He won the Republican Primary with 34.8% of the vote, but lost the General Election against incumbent Democrat Steven Horsford by a margin of 50.7% to 45.8%. After losing the election, he sued to have the result reversed, alleging voter fraud claims. Marchant's request was denied by a Clark County District Court judge on November 20, 2020. On his Nevada Secretary of State campaign website, Marchant claims he "was a victim of election fraud". 2022 Nevada Secretary of State election Jim Marchant was a candidate for Secretary of State of Nevada in the 2022 election. Marchant had denied Biden's victory in the state in 2020, claiming that "It's almost statistically impossible that Joe Biden won." In the aftermath of the 2020 United States presidential election, Marchant supported the Trump fake electors plot, the attempt by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the election result by sending fake electors from Nevada to vote for Trump in the Electoral College instead of the Democratic electors chosen by Nevada voters. He said that if he is elected Secretary of State, he would also support the sending of fake electors from Nevada after the 2024 presidential election. Marchant also stated that he would eliminate vote by mail, end early voting, and remove all electronic voting machines, which would be replaced by hand counting in a "traceable paper-ballot only" voting system. He has advocated for decentralizing vote counting, and has actively sought to convince counties to eliminate the use of voting machines and to conduct all ballot counting by hand, which experts say will increase human error in the ballot counting process and make counting slower. Marchant's promise to end voting by mail is based on the theory that voting by mail caused widespread voter fraud in the 2020 United States presidential election. Moreover, Marchant's desire to replace voting machines with hand counts has its root in another theory that Dominion Voting Systems machines, in collaboration with deceased Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez and billionaire philanthropist George Soros, switched votes from former President Donald Trump to President Joe Biden. Marchant claims he only wishes to ban voting machines until they can be inspected for