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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAfter Biden's win in Georgia, the state's GOP House Speaker wants to strip voters from choosing the
Secretary of StateGeorgia House Speaker David Ralston on Thursday called for a constitutional amendment to allow state legislators to choose the Secretary of State - thereby taking away the responsibility from voters - in response to continued Republican unrest over President-elect Joe Biden's statewide victory over President Donald Trump in the November election.
Ralston, a Republican, said that legislators in the GOP-controlled Georgia General Assembly, which includes the state House of Representatives and Senate, would select the Secretary of State, who runs statewide elections, upon approval of the amendment.
However, voters would have to approve the constitutional amendment.
After Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a fellow Republican, declined to participate in a state Senate hearing on the election, Ralston said that he was "shocked" and "disappointed" by the move, according to Atlanta's NBC affiliate 11 Alive.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/after-biden-s-win-in-georgia-the-state-s-gop-house-speaker-wants-to-strip-voters-from-choosing-the-secretary-of-state/ar-BB1bSj60?li=BBnbfcQ&ocid=DELLDHP
You dumbshit the Secretary of State isn't the reason Georgia voters chose Biden. He did however defend the results of the election which is his job.
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After Biden's win in Georgia, the state's GOP House Speaker wants to strip voters from choosing the (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Dec 2020
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vlyons
(10,252 posts)1. Gosh, we can't let the voters decide!
They might pick someone the GOP doesn't like.
yellowdogintexas
(22,270 posts)2. in Texas the Secretary of State is appointed by the Governor
It is not on the ballot.
Every state has its own method. Kentucky puts it on the ballot when they vote for governor
uponit7771
(90,359 posts)3. Raffensperger still tried to purge 300,000 GA voters from the rolls before the election so he's stil
... still an asshole just didn't work and afterwards he had to do what was right in the open