True. But I raised a side issue that I though was germane to the general issue of fair elections.
Show me where Katherine Harris broke the law. ...
Why? I never asserted that she did. Both public and private entities have conflict-of-interest laws and regulations precisely because it's important to avoid both actual conflicting actions and the appearance that someone might have committed one.
Someone has to certify elections. If it is an elected post, that person will very probably be a member of a political party. As such, that person probably attends conventions of their party, ... [etc.]All good points. But active participation in a party is one thing. Participating in organizing an election for a particular partisan interest while being the head of the body that is supposed to regulate that election is going too far, in my NSHO. It's like having the head of Planned Parenthood in charge of an state's abortion clinic regulatory board.
In the case of certifying an election, the appearance of impropriety is essentially impossible to avoid.
100% Yes. But you can do a lot better than this.
As an aside, the Florida Department of Elections, which is a division of the Florida Department of State formerly run by Katherine Harris, has a well organized web site. See: Florida DOE and Election Fraud Letter.
PS, Glenda Hood, the current Florida Secretary of State who wrote the linked letter on cracking down on election fraud is a Republican. Horrors. (/sarcasm) If she is going to fight voter fraud, then more power to her.