| I didn't know until reading coverage yesterday that Ruth Johnson had ordered clerks not to include her dumb citizenship question on absentee ballot applications. During the hearing, testimony revealed Johnson ordered the removal of the citizenship question from absentee voter applications for the Nov. 6 election one week after being sued over the issue. "If it's so important, then why isn't it on the absentee ballots?" Borman asked.
This is after she apparently complained to the judge that ruling against her was going to increase election costs to local municipalities (if this is the case, there isn't any way to assign responsibility for it to anyone but the Secretary of State, which ordered questions of highly dubious nature in the first place; and, by the way, if she was so confident it would withstand judicial scrutiny, why order it off absentee ballots). Then again, I don't think anyone has been fooled into believing that this was ever really about non-citizen voting... |
