You know the names. Katherine L. Harris of Florida. Kenneth Blackwell of Ohio. These two people had a couple of things in common. Harris, you may remember, was Florida's secretary of state in 2000, a Republican who just so happened to be the state's chairperson of George W. Bush's presidential campaign. Blackwell, also a Republican, chaired Bush's 2004 campaign in the Buckeye state. Think it was any coincidence that in their respective election years, those states' vote counts were embroiled in controversy and thousands of votes placed by African-Americans weren't counted, polling places in lower income areas lacked adequate numbers of machines, causing hours-long lines, discouraging people from casting votes? Well, that nightmare may not happen this year. Harris and Blackwell are long gone and as this Politico piece spells out, many Democrats occupy the secretary of state positions in key states.
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