voter id

While Americans Die in Trump’s War and Suffer an Affordability Crisis, Senate Republicans Work to Take Away Your Voting Rights

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When asked yesterday if he could name one incident of major voter fraud as the Senate began debate on the Orwellian voter restrictive SAVE (Safeguard Voter Eligibility Act), House Speaker and Holy Roller Hypocrite Mike Johnson said: “Look, we’re not going to get into all that. I’m going to tell you what I tell Democrats. … Read more

A method to the madness of King Donald (Updated)

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Renée Graham at the Boston Globe has a great line that’s worth repeating: “President Trump never met a conspiracy theory that he wouldn’t spread like manure.” The tinfoil hat presidency (subscription required). President Trump has spent a significant portion of the past two and a half years soothing his deeply fragile ego by insisting he … Read more

The fight for fair, transparent and secure elections

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If Russian citizens can take to the streets to demand fair and transparent elections, at risk of imprisonment and their very life for doing so from Vladimir Putin’s totalitarian regime, The pro-democracy protests rocking Moscow, explained, then surely Americans who do not live under such a threat of violence can take to the streets and … Read more

Steve Gaynor raises red flags in Secretary of State race

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There has not been much good reporting on Steve Gaynor, the Republican candidate for Secretary of State who ousted Secretary of State Michele Reagan in the Arizona GOP primary, but what little I have seen reported raises red flags about this guy seeing his role as the chief elections officer in Arizona as classic GOP voter suppression in the tradition of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, both of whom are running for governor in November.

Earlier this year, Secretary of State Michelle Reagan settled a lawsuit over Arizona’s bifurcated dual voter registration system for those who use the federal voter registration form.

Gaynor focused his criticism on the aspect of the settlement that requires the state to register voters for federal elections even if they use the state form. He said Michelle Reagan should not have settled and fought the issue all the way to the Supreme Court, if necessary.

I covered this at length in an earlier post. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach had his ass handed to him in federal court over this same issue. So much for this litigation criticism.  Michelle Reagan is terrible, but Steve Gaynor fancies himself the next Kris Kobach. (Kansas and Arizona were the only two states who maintained this practice).

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