Kris Kobach, vice chair of the new Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, wants to know what the Secretaries of State think
undermine[s] the American people’s confidence in the integrity of federal elections processes.
Now I’m no Secretary of State, but I sure as hell am American people. So I emailed him my answer, to ElectionIntegrityStaff@ovp.eop.gov. My chief concerns?
- A president who frequently expresses his distaste for bleeding women but has yet to express his opposition to Russian interference in American elections
- Massive purges of voter registration rolls without due process
- Legislators who craft gerrymandered redistricting maps enabling politicians to choose their voters rather than the reverse
- The Supreme Court's decision in Shelby County v Holder, gutting the protections of the Voting Rights Act under the obviously false rationale that America is today a post-racial society
- Voter suppression efforts targeted at voters of color, the working poor, and students
- Antiquated voting systems vulnerable to state-sponsored tampering and conveniently producing no auditable paper trails
- A Federal Elections Commission - our democracy's watchdog - that is toothless by design
- The Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v FEC, granting the wealthy few a louder voice in political campaigns than all other citizens combined
- An antiquated Electoral College system that enables minority rule
- An advisory committee on election integrity led by a notorious champion of voter suppression
I’m sure Kris is dying to know what you think, too, fellow American peoples. So let him know. That address again is ElectionIntegrityStaff@ovp.eop.gov. Because shame on us if we can’t shove half a million emails up his inbox, witnessing for the truth.
Forward together, y’all.