Democratic group will spend $5 million to elect secretaries of state, the latest front in voting wa

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

The left-leaning ballot access group iVote will spend at least $5 million across swing states to elect Democratic secretaries of state — the latest front in the “voting wars” that Democrats worried they have been losing.

“Republicans have understood the importance of the office,” said iVote president and founder Ellen Kurz. “There isn’t a single Democratic swing state secretary of state. And dozens of states have taken away opportunities to vote, purged voter rolls and disenfranchised certain voters every year.”

This year, iVote will focus on electing Democrats as the chief election officials in seven states: Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico and Ohio. Only one of those states, New Mexico, has a Democratic secretary of state.

Two of the states, Arizona and Michigan, have not elected Democrats to the office since the 1990s; Colorado has not elected a Democratic secretary of state since John F. Kennedy was in the White House.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/01/25/democratic-group-will-spend-5-million-to-elect-secretaries-of-state-the-latest-front-in-voting-wars

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This is a category of races that my wife and I are planning to spend a lot of time and money on.

[ehrnst]

1. Smart strategy. AGs can affect a lot of issues. (nt)

[KPN]

2. Too bad they have to announce the strategy in order to promote donations.

It's a good strategy as the GOP has already demonstrated, but d be surprised if the Kochs, Robert Mercer, Adelman, et. al., counter this by simply flooding those particular races with money themselves.

Why are we always two steps behind the GOP?

[iluvtennis]

3. Bout time. So glad its happening. Never to late to get in the game

[WhiteTara]

4. Help us in Arkansas

we have a woman democrat running against that disgusting Mark Something or other SOS...gave Kobach our records the second the fax came through and lied to the citizens saying he wouldn't send until he had responses from us...lying sack.

We have 2 candidates, my pick is Susan Inman and she is from the clerks office and knows lots about election law and would be great for our state. We also have a youngish AA man Anthony Bland, but I don't have his background info.

So, Susan could use lots of help after the primaries. Or even before. I can't donate, but I certainly know how to dial the phone and have a couple of candidates I'm working for and she is one.

[shraby]

5. They are just now realizing it? I would think they would have the message after 2000, Jeb Bush and

his secretary of state who purged voters off the rolls to help his brother win.

Then there was Ohio and Blackwell(?) in 2004. He made new rules after the fact to disqualify registrations, plus shorted them on the voting machines.

[RandomAccess]

6. I don't know that we're known for being quick on the uptake, are we?

As a matter of fact, Democrats have been SO lax and lame and sanguine on the whole issue of election fraud from A to Z, and esp. trying to get legislation to fix things both at the state and national levels that I long ago figured it must be because we had our own sins to cover up. Hope that's not true, but the SILENCE and inaction -- again, at both state and national levels -- has been dispiriting.

[BobTheSubgenius]

7. Republicans will line up to run for dogcatcher, if that's what available.

Every elected position at every level of government is in their crosshairs, and it's been working for them, both short term and long term.