... who's not currently registered to vote in Arkansas.
An Arkansas county clerk's office has found a case of voter fraud that
could affect the outcome of an upcoming election. Candidates for state office must be eligible to vote in the state, and:
Pulaski County Clerk Larry Crane on Tuesday canceled the voter registration for [Republican candidate for attorney general] Leslie Rutledge of Little Rock after confirming that the former Gov. Huckabee legal aide is registered to vote in Washington, D.C., and possibly Virginia.
Rutledge is
claiming political motivation for her loss of Arkansas voter registration:
"Taking a person's right to vote away from them, as Democrat Larry Crane has done, is reprehensible and a desperate attempt to help the campaign of a Democratic candidate who lacks the experience and good judgment to protect the citizens of our great state."
Take a minute to howl with laughter. A
Republican candidate bitterly complaining about how reprehensible it is to take away a person's right to vote. Like that's not one of three prongs of the Republican plan for winning elections over the next few cycles as demographics shift against them.
In all seriousness, failing to cancel a registration after you move and re-register in another place is not the world's biggest outrage against the electoral process, as long as you don't attempt to vote in both places. But if it's illegal in Arkansas, it's illegal in Arkansas, and it's kind of unseemly for someone to think they should get special treatment just because they're a candidate. Maybe more significantly, even if her registration is restored, Arkansans now have a reminder that Leslie Rutledge bears the taint of Washington, DC, and only came back to Arkansas after the 2012 election and registered to vote in 2013. And the world has a great example of how outraged Republicans are when they come on the receiving end of the treatment they routinely try to deal out to likely Democratic voters.
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