Saturday, October 1, 2022

Politics: 2022 Secretary of State Elections

There is only one other post other than this one to cover before the midterms and it will get up there sometime soon. I just need to write it and the other ones that I’m behind on. I am now going to do my first of any posts on secretary of state elections.

 

State with elections: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington (special), Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

 

They are more important than perhaps they should be because of the America First Secretary of State Coalition. These are people who think that Trump only lost in 2020 because of fraud that somehow failed to affect any of the other elections somehow. There are other reasons too. But I don’t want any of them to win.

 

Let’s get to the bad news first. There were some successes in primaries. In the Pennysylvania governor race and secretary of state races in Michigan, New Mexico, Arizona, Indiana, and Nevada, these Trump backed candidates all won the primary. Will they win the general election in the end? I guess that we’ll see and hope not.

 

But there is good news. They have so far had more failures in primaries and run-offs. The Trump backed candidates in Kansas, Colorado, Alabama, South Carolina, California, Georgia, Idaho, and Nebraska all lost the primaries or run-offs. For those keeping track, more of the Trump backed candidates in his colliation lost than won. And that’s not factoring in to what might happen in the general elections where more might lose.

 

I won’t talk that much about the other elections in the country relating to secretary of state. But there is one incumbent that I know is terrible and that’s the one in Ohio. He has taken part in voter purges, something that should be illegal. It is weird that it happened in Georgia in 2018 and it wasn’t considered as big a deal as it was then as it is now.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/12/1968733/-Sleazy-Ohio-Republican-Secretary-of-State-Blocks-Ballot-Drop-Boxes-to-suppress-voter-turnout?utm_campaign=trending

 

As an autstic person, it can be hard to get behind candidates who openly disagree with and mock the progress they try to make. Republicans do terrible with people with special needs while lying about protecting those with pre-existing conditions. I guess that they hope that they don’t vote at all like the one in Minnesota openly admits.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/8/2115232/-Minnesota-secretary-of-state-candidate-questioned-whether-disabled-people-should-be-voting

 

And there you have it. I have only one more post that has to be done before the general election happens as I cover some of the House races. I’ll have a different type of follow up post for after the election that I’ll get to later and explain in that post. I’ll see you then.

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