USA Today: Democrats target SoS races in key states

[Apollo11]

Top vote counter becomes prize job

Posted 8/17/2006 12:00 AM ET

By Jill Lawrence, USA TODAY

The political battle for control of the federal government has opened up a new front: the obscure but vital state offices that determine who votes and how those votes are counted.

The state post of secretary of State was a backwater until 2000, when Florida's Katherine Harris became a central figure in the presidential recount controversy. Now national Democratic groups and White House prospects, unhappy about Harris' decisions and those of Republican Kenneth Blackwell in Ohio two years ago, are pouring resources into contests for the job.

At least three Democratic political action committees are spotlighting secretary of State candidates, most of them in states where they expect the presidential vote to be close. Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada and Ohio top their lists.

Secretaries of State control most voting regulations and influence state purchases of voting machines. Looking ahead to 2008, Democrats say they want people they trust in those offices.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-08-16-secretary-state-democrats_x.htm

[Peace Patriot]

1. There is nothing more important than this--NOTHING! And in California,

we are having a knock-down drag-out over Diebold voting machines, with...

..."good guy" Debra Bowen, a fabulously smart former state senator, who won the Dem Party nomination for SoS on a strong election reform platform, and is running against...

..."bad guy" Bruce McPherson, a Diebold shill, appointed by Schwarzenegger to replace the elected Dem, Kevin Shelley, who was "swiftboated" out of office after he sued Diebold's ass and decertified the worst of their election theft machines prior to the 2004 election (--also demanded to see their source code).

The gauntlet is down. Will California be "Diebolded" into a "red state," against the clear will of the majority?

Stay tuned.

Debra Bowen has a call out for donations. Go to: www.debrabowen.com. If you want democracy in California, send her some money. She's ahead in the polls with a lot of undecideds (--a reflection of the black hole into which our war profiteering corporate news monopolies have thrown the most important story of our era: insider hackable elections, run on TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled by Bushite corporations!).