Secretary of state candidate: Beware the household union boss
Source: Denver Post
El Paso County Clerk and Recorder Wayne Williams’ turn in the Fox News spotlight has liberals and union bosses riled up. Even the host of the interview, Megyn Kelly, didn’t seem to buy Williams’ logic that one of the problems with Colorado’s mail-in ballots is that it gives union bosses in voters’ homes the chance to influence the election.
“There are some Coloradans who prefer not to get a ballot mailed to them because there might be someone in the household, a union boss, an employer, who intimidates them once they get that ballot,” Williams, the Republican nominee for secretary of state, said on Tuesday night’s “The Kelly File.”
“They would prefer to just have the ability to go into a polling place. They can go into a polling place now but if they’ve already cast that mail ballot, if someone has influenced them and they cast it already, they don’t have the ability to go into a pristine polling place in which no one can influence them.”
Democrats passed an election law last year — without a single Republican vote in the statehouse — that sends a ballot to every registered voter, even those who haven’t voted in awhile. The option to vote by mail has been around since 1992, and in the 2012 general election about 73 percent of voters did so by mail. Those uncomfortable about voting by mail still have the option to go to a voting center in their county and cast their ballot in person.
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Snip: Democrats, the Colorado AFL-CIO and national liberal blogs are feasting on the Williams’ union-boss theory, no doubt for political points by some ahead of Tuesday’s election.
Voters can go vote in person, so his point is (that he is) pretty stupid.
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