The three Republican candidates for the 14th State Senate District are focussing on “election integrity” and “education.” One of them, Cindy Miller, sponsored a resolution in her township condemning mail-in ballots, drop boxes, and the lack of voter I.D. Dean Browning says only in-person voting should be allowed. Omy Maldonado called mail in ballots a “recipe for fraud.”
None of them addressed the role of money in campaigns. They aren’t concerned about PACs funding campaigns. They aren’t concerned that elections are basically bought in this country. But, damn it, let’s take away mail-in ballots.
Election integrity is an issue like “critical race theory” or “defunding the police.” That is, they are not real. They are used by Republicans as shiny objects to distract voters from real issues like global warming and a minimum wage that is below the poverty level.
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