Why State Secretaries of State Matter

Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat who replaced the Uncle Tom Republican Ken Blackwell, has just moved against voter caging, "Brunner issued a release last week directing that 60-day notices sent by boards of election to voters that are returned as undeliverable cannot be used as the sole reason for canceling an Ohio resident’s voter registration."

This is why having a Democrat as the chief election official in the state, and why Republicans try for these positions.

Republicans take a page out of Stalin's book,^* "Those who cast the votes, they decide nothing. Those who count the votes, they decide everything."

^*Actually, it's not his book, it was the memoirs of his secretary, who quoted Stalin as saying this.