{"id":194526,"date":"2008-09-16T05:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T10:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/16\/why-state-secretaries-of-state-matter\/"},"modified":"2008-09-16T05:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T10:17:00","slug":"why-state-secretaries-of-state-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/16\/why-state-secretaries-of-state-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Why State Secretaries of State Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat who replaced the Uncle Tom Republican Ken Blackwell, has <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/politico\/20080913\/pl_politico\/13415;_ylt=Au3xRtvgPXLnCAq176SfYI2yFz4D\">just moved against voter caging<\/a>, &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Brunner issued a release last week directing that 60-day notices sent by boards of election to voters that are returned as undeliverable cannot be used as the sole reason for canceling an Ohio resident\u2019s voter registration.<\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>This is why having a Democrat as the chief election official in the state, and why Republicans try for these positions.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans take <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Stalin\">a page out of Stalin&#8217;s book<\/a>,<sup>*<\/sup> &#8220;Those who cast the votes, they decide nothing. Those who count the votes, they decide everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Actually, it&#8217;s not <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;\" >his<\/span><span style=\"font-size:78%;\"> book, it was the memoirs of his secretary, who quoted Stalin as saying this.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat who replaced the Uncle Tom Republican Ken Blackwell, has just moved against voter caging, &#8220;Brunner issued a release last week directing that 60-day notices sent by boards of election to voters that are returned as undeliverable cannot be used as the sole reason for canceling an Ohio &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,970,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-corruption","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}