Misinformation sent to Independent voters

The Sierra Vista Herald on Tuesday had this factoid tucked away in the opening of an editorial opinion. OUR VIEW: Will Arizona stay ‘open?’

The phone was ringing off the hook at the Cochise County Recorder’s Office Monday afternoon.

County Recorder Christine Rhodes said she had just received a call from the Secretary of State’s office alerting her to a statewide mailing that has the wrong information.

The mailing appears to be targeted at independent voters — those who are not affiliated with the Republican or Democratic or other political parties. It incorrectly states the only way these independents can participate in the Aug. 26 primary election is by mail — receiving an early ballot and sending it back.

That’s not the case.

Rhodes said independent voters can go to the polls on Aug. 26 and request a partisan ballot, or they can come to the Recorder’s Office before primary election day and complete a ballot, or they can choose to fill out an early ballot and mail it back.

Independent voters are not limited, as the statewide piece apparently states, to only mailing back an early ballot.

It’s not entirely clear from this reporting who sent the mailing, but it reasonably appears to be our hapless  Secretary of State, Ken “Birther” Bennett, calling to correct an error by his office. (If you received one of these mailings, please send us a copy in .pdf format).

This is the same Secretary of State who managed a train wreck of an election in 2012 with mass confusion, provisional ballots and weeks of counting ballots, and who is presently pursuing an unconstitutional dual election system in this election because Attorney General Tom “banned for life by the SEC” Horne said he could.

This guy sucks at his current job, which is why he believes he should fail upward into the governorship. Unbelievable.

I would hope that the media around Arizona corrects the misinformation being sent to independent voters. The Sierra Vista Herald is the only place I have seen it reported so far.