Texas Secretary of State Hope
Andrade is cashing it in after 4 and a half years on the job overseeing the
election process in the state.
She claims it is just because she has other things she wants
to do and is happy to leave office.
I hope so. But I doubt it.
Andrade oversaw a voter roll purge just short weeks before
the General Election where the voter lists were compared to lists of the
deceased maintained by the Social Security Administration. Thousands received
notices that they had to verify that they were still alive or they would lose
their registration.
This earned Andrade a brief moment in the spotlight as we
learned of other such attempts to purge voter lists so that Republicans could
win their races.
But here’s what I think. I think Andrade was coerced into
conducting this purge, and those actually behind the effort to reduce the voter
rolls ducked for cover when news got out and a lawsuit was filed, giving
Andrade full and complete blame for the affair.
I believe Andrade was set up, and then made the scapegoat of
a Republican move to do a nearly impossible thing: make Texas a redder state
than it already is.
Hopefully Hope will heal, and maybe someday we will find out
who was truly behind the voter suppression purge in Texas this past election
cycle.
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