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Lincoln Attorney Announces Run for Nebraska Secretary of State

Lincoln Attorney Announces Run for Nebraska Secretary of State

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Former Nebraska Board of Education member, Republican Bob Evnen, has announced his candidacy for Secretary of State.
Evnen, a lawyer from Lincoln, says voting security will be a priority. . .

Evnen says Nebraska should adopt photo-voter identification. . .

Evnen may be best known as the co-founder of Nebraskans for the Death Penalty, the group which led a successful ballot initiative to overturn the legislature’s repeal of the death penalty.
Secretary of State John Gale, a Republican, has announced he will not run for re-election.

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