Michigan's Secretary of State Office must find itself with an identity crisis at times. On one hand, it serves the somewhat mundane function of renewing drivers licences, license plates, registration tags, etc.. On the other hand, it serves the very critical role of overseeing Michigan's election laws & ensuring everyone has access to a voting booth on election day.
When it comes to electing someone to run this office, however, it isn't the voting rights issue that usually comes front and center, it's the ongoing issue of why the lines are so long at the branch offices, and why, in the year 2010, I still can't pay with my credit card once I get to the front of that line.
So be it. Voters tend to react to what annoys them most. But the reality is that with obscene amounts of money being poured into elections today from untold sources of funding, it is more important than ever that we have someone in the Secretary of State's office that understands the importance of voting access and campaign accountability. Lucky for us, we actually have that candidate running for Secretary of State this year in Jocelyn Benson.
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