On Bannon’s War Room, QAnon-linked Nevada secretary of state candidate Jim Marchant solicits volunteers to hand-count ballots

During the November 9 edition of coup plotter Steve Bannon’s War Room show, Nevada Republican secretary of state nominee Jim Marchant begged Bannon’s listeners to volunteer for a hand count set to occur in rural Nye County, Nevada. The effort is linked to conspiracy theories and distrust in voting machines sown by the far-right.

Marchant is an election denier and the leader of a nationwide QAnon-connected coalition of candidates seeking “to take over election process[es] in key states” ahead of the 2024 presidential race. (Marchant has previously suggested that if he and his allies are elected, Democrats “can’t win” another election.) So far, several of the group’s endorsed candidates have lost their races in the general election, including Pennsylvania’s Doug Mastriano, Michigan’s Kristina Karamo, and New Mexico’s Audrey Trujillo. Several others lost their primaries earlier this year. 

Now, with votes still being counted in the narrow race for Nevada secretary of state, Marchant appeared on Bannon’s show with a plea for his War Room audience.

“We’re actually doing a hand count. We’re asking for volunteers to come out,” Marchant told Bannon. “Come out and help us. It’d be historic. It’s going to be the first place in the country where we do that and we’re actually checking ballots and machines, so it’s going to happen.”