Officials overseeing elections should relinquish authority while running for office

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Candidates who have an oversight role in the electoral process should relinquish that authority if they're running for office, RealClearPolitics Washington bureau chief Carl Cannon said on Monday.

"In these states, you have people overseeing the process, who are participants in the process, who are candidates. That shouldn't happen," Cannon told Hill.TV's Joe Concha on "What America's Thinking."

"These guys want to win, and both parties want to win," Cannon said. "No single election is as important in my mind as voter confidence. You'd like to see them act more like statesmen rather than candidates."

Sen.-elect Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Georgia Gov.-elect Brian Kemp (R) both held state positions during their campaigns that gave them authority over the electoral process.

Kemp declared victory earlier this month amid a hotly contested race against Democrat Stacey Abrams, who ended her campaign on Friday after she said she saw "no legal path forward."

https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/417490-government-officials-overseeing-elections-shouldnt-be

[beachbum bob]

1. It's a state issue and why democrats must win state and local elections

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. It is a state issue because cons are filthy traitors and liars and cheats.

Were they not it wouldn't be an issue, at all.

[beachbum bob]

3. They got the power because of apathetic democrats...

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. And apathetic Americans who think voting is a waste of time.

Lots of them still around but most of them are NOT

POC
Asian American
Muslim American
Latino American
African American
Gay
Transgender
Bi
Women

Most of those in these groups are aware the GOP is trying to kill them, or at a minimum remove them from our society.

[treestar]

5. A no brainer

Appalling that they did not step down from the office.

[UpInArms]

6. I thought there was a rule about

Being in office and running as a candidate that was supposed to separate their actions?

[Different Drummer]

7. IOKIYAR. n/t

[Blue_true]

8. I agree.

Would be nice to have a non partisan commission running election. If not that, democrats because modern democrats run fair elections (the really old ones circa early 1900's could be a bit shady).