Posted on 02/03/2010 6:15:33 AM PST by GeezerConservative
States' Secretaries of State Are Tipping Balance of Power By Ed Barnes - FOXNews.com In every major election since 2000 Secretaries of State have emerged as key, often decisive, and partisan figures in the outcomes of those ballot battles. print email share recommend (6) Katherine Harris, Florida's secretary of state in 2000, helped seal George W. Bush's presidential election. In 2000 it was Katherine Harris, the secretary of state of Florida, who made critical decisions that helped swing the state Republican. In 2004 it was Kenneth Blackwell, Ohio's Secretary of State, who earned democratic wrath for ensuring a close Republican win. In 2008 it was the Secretary of State of Minnesota, Mark Richie, who handed that state's Senate seat to Al Franken and control of Congress to the Democrats. In every major election since 2000 Secretaries of State have emerged as key, often decisive, and partisan figures in the outcomes of those ballot battles....
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Soro's is targeting that office for Democrats.
Yep....looks like they are trying to cut us off at the pass....NOT going to happen. They CAN’T steal an election if we win by more then a few percent......
Definitely an issue where we were all caught napping.
Soros and his minions identified this as a soft underbelly of our system, and have been devoting considerable resources towards it ever since Florida 2000.
Since 2006 the Democracy Alliance, a left leaning influence group funded by George Soros among others, has had remarkable success in targeting and claiming Secretary of State's offices in 11 of 13 critical states they targeted, including Ohio, Minnesota and Iowa.
Called the Secretary of State Project (SOSP) its aim is to target and capture the obscure, often overlooked office and implement election rules changes that give democrats a better chance of winning a plurality. Among those changes that SOSP calls "election protection," are a loosening of voter registration requirements and a lessening of efforts to prevent fraudulent voting, according to Matthew Vadum, a political analyst with the Capitol Research Center.
"The thing that is amazing is that they can get the office for as little $100,000 in campaign funding because no one pays attention to it, and they get to control election opportunities in a state."
Ping!
This has been a longstanding Dem strategy. I wish I could recall just where I first read about this strategy, but the details matter little. They’ve been working at this for quite a few years and in general it has been very effective as far as influencing elections.
This would be a good project for Tea Partiers—to identify these schemes in their own states.
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