Posted on 10/25/2021 10:55:10 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
The Biden administration is reportedly in talks to appoint Kim Wyman, a Republican secretary of state who challenged former President Trump's false claims of fraud, to lead efforts to protect elections from interference.
It would make Wyman, 59, one of the most senior GOP appointments in the administration.
And it would propel her into a prominent position working with election officials around the country at a time when much of her own party has sown doubt about voting integrity.
Federal officials have spent weeks in talks with Wyman, Washington state's secretary of state, to become the election security lead for the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, according to CNN.
As the most senior official in charge of Washington state's 2020 election, she repeatedly denied Trump's claims that mail-in voting could be abused and pushed back on the idea that increasingly accessibility increased the risk of fraud.
'In this day and age, restricting or hindering voter access is inexcusable, and falling short of our commitment to ensuring our elections are safe, secure and accurate is irresponsible,' she wrote for MarketWatch last year.
In an interview with CNN in May, she denounced Arizona's Republican audit of its presidential results for not being transparent.
'What we could see, you know, down the road is whatever political party is in charge of a state legislature, if they don't like the outcome of an election, then let's just go ahead and make up an audit, make up a process, make up some sort of review, and the public will not be well served and the public will have trouble being -- having any confidence in those results,' she said.
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The Constitution puts States in charge of conducting elections. Let’s keep it that way!
She’s just an ugly woman.
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