# Mark Finchem Arizona Republican politician and prominent election denier who was the party's 2022 nominee for Secretary of State — the office that runs Arizona's elections — running on a platform of overturning 2020 and decertifying results; he lost. An [[Oath Keepers]] member who was near the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, he later won a state Senate seat. He typifies the 'run for the office that counts the votes' strategy. In March 2025 he spoke at Quantum Summit 2 in Cape Canaveral, Florida, a conference built around the [[NESARA-GESARA]] debt-jubilee mythology, where the organizer called for guillotines (*Arizona Mirror*). *New Lines* reports he has proposed XRP legislation and called XRP his "favorite" cryptocurrency — the token NESARA believers treat as the "white hat" currency.