For decades, globalist billionaire George Soros has spent millions making sure Democrats control the officials who decide which votes get counted.
This November, he's doing it again.
Now Republicans just launched something that could stop him – and Democrats never saw it coming.
How George Soros Used Secretary of State Races to Rig Elections for Two Decades
In 2006, George Soros and his Democrat allies launched the Secretary of State Project – a 527 organization with one goal: put left-wing Democrats in charge of state election offices across America.
The scheme worked.
By targeting battleground states where presidential margins ran under 120,000 votes, the Soros-backed operation helped elect Democrat secretaries of state in Ohio, Minnesota, New Mexico, Nevada, and Iowa in its very first cycle.
The payoff came fast.
In Minnesota, Soros-backed Secretary of State Mark Ritchie presided over the 2008 Senate recount between Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken – a recount riddled with what one journalist called a long series of "appalling irregularities" that invariably benefited Franken.
Franken won by 312 votes.
That Senate seat gave Democrats their 60th vote – the margin that passed Obamacare.
The Soros project elected 11 Democrat secretaries of state before quietly folding in 2010 – after Republicans swept back into power and buried most of its candidates.
But the playbook survived. Democrat-aligned outside groups are already pouring money into 2026 secretary of state races.
The GOP Election Integrity Plan to Clean Voter Rolls and Stop Soros in 2026
The Republican State Leadership Committee just launched its Election Protection Initiative – a direct answer to the Soros operation that reshaped American elections for a generation.
Twenty-six secretary of state elections will be held nationwide this cycle – 13 currently held by Republicans and 13 by Democrats – and Soros-aligned groups are already spending to flip them.
"Voters deserve confidence that every legal vote is counted and that elections are administered fairly, securely, and transparently," RSLC President Edith Jorge-Tuñón told the Daily Caller.
The initiative is built around four pillars: scrubbing voter rolls, requiring voter ID, locking down ballot security, and making every step of the process visible to the public.
Democrats Are Blocking the SAVE America Act and Leaving Voter Rolls Unprotected
The EPI launched the same week Trump's election integrity push hit a wall in federal court.
Trump signed an executive order in March 2026 directing the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration to compile citizenship verification lists for every state before the November midterms.
Democrat attorneys general immediately filed suit.
An Obama-appointed judge struck down the order this week, calling it unconstitutional.
Which means the battle now falls squarely to state-level officials – secretaries of state who control voter rolls, ballot security protocols, and election certification.
Whoever runs those offices after November will control who counts the votes in 2028.
Republicans currently hold 27 of 50 secretary of state offices nationwide – a majority built one race at a time since 2007.
Trump's push for the SAVE America Act – requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote – has already cleared the House.
It has stalled in the Senate, where Democrats are blocking it cold.
Chuck Schumer called it "outrageous."
That leaves the battlefield exactly where Soros always knew it would be – in the states, in the offices that manage voter rolls, certify results, and decide which ballots get counted.
The EPI arms Republican candidates with a unified framework and backs them with national resources, instead of leaving 26 separate races to fight 26 separate battles alone.
Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen – the new chair of the Republican Secretaries of State Committee – said: "Secretaries of state are on the front lines of protecting election integrity, and the stakes in 2026 could not be higher."
Soros ran his scheme in the shadows because few Americans ever thought about secretary of state races.
Republicans just made sure he can't run it in the dark anymore.
Sources:
- Rebeka Zeljko, "GOP Mirrors Soros' Secretary Of State Project — This Time To Boost Election Integrity," The Daily Caller, June 23, 2026.
- "Republican Secretaries of State Committee Announces 2026 Executive Committee," Republican State Leadership Committee, April 22, 2026.
- "Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Ensures Citizenship Verification and Voter Eligibility in Federal Elections," The White House, March 31, 2026.
- "Trumps Voter Citizenship Mandate Struck Down by Obama-Appointed Judge," Newsweek, June 24, 2026.
- "George Soros and SOS Project Hit Hard on Election Day," The Daily Caller, November 9, 2010.
- "Soros and Liberal Groups Seeking Top Election Posts in Battleground States," The Washington Times, June 23, 2011.
