CA Republican secretary of state candidate: I want to make it hard for people to vote

[ck4829]

Religious-right activist Rachel Hamm is running for secretary of state in California as a Republican because she claims Jesus appeared in her closet and told her to do so. Claiming that she has been designated by God “to expose lies, to speak truth, and to establish My Kingdom every single place that you step your foot,” Hamm says she began her campaign because she “would rather be dead than live in a communist country.”

On Wednesday, Hamm was interviewed by Craig Deluz of the California Republican Assembly, a conservative activist group that has endorsed her campaign. During the interview, Hamm announced that if elected, she intends to use her position as secretary of state to make it harder for people to vote.

“My views are a little bit controversial when it comes to voter registration,” Hamm said. “Everyone is wanting to make it as easy as possible (to register to vote). … I see it the exact opposite. I want to make it hard. I want it to be something that people have to choose and re-choose and have to prove that they’re a citizen and all that.”

“I think we should clean the slate completely and have people have to re-register every eight years or maybe even every 12 years,” she continued. “You have to re-register, you have to prove that you still want to vote, that you’re still alive, and that you still want to vote, that you still live in the place where you’re saying you live. That’s what I would like to do with voter registration.”

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/ca-gop-secretary-of-state-candidate-rachel-hamm-wants-to-make-it-hard-for-people-to-vote/

Not even "voter fraud" anymore, it's just "Nope, I don't want people to vote"

Why?

Because Republicans can't win on popular appeal or using platforms, they have to increasingly bypass the consent of the governed.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

1. Fuck you, Rachel.

People are free here. Take your "make it hard to vote" crap and shove it.

[Brother Buzz]

2. Jesus is in the closet?

[dchill]

4. AND he's a communist!

[dchill]

3. Pretty sure Jesus was a commie, Rachel.

[dalton99a]

5. Fucking loon

[Walleye]

6. No, no.Dishonest on the face of it. Just wants to make it harder for some people to vote

For some reason they never think their own voters are gonna be suppressed. Maybe because they intentionally make the rules that way.

[OilemFirchen]

7. Dollars to doughnuts...

she's voted illegally in the recent past.

Wait for it...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Well, at least she's up front about what she wants.

I'm up front too.

I want her to fail, big time.

[RockRaven]

9. FWIW, this loon will never even get close to being elected. There is a Dem incumbent,

Shirley Weber, who was appointed by the governor to replace Padilla (who was appointed to fill Harris's Senate seat).

Weber is running for re-election, and she's the only Dem, so there won't be any Dem vote splitting in the non-partisan/"jungle" primary (where as there are four Repukes, along with one Green and one no-party). Weber is going to be on the general election ballot, guaranteed, and she'll handily beat whoever the second place person is.

[LiberalLovinLug]

10. Fight fire with water.

Maybe this exists already, but why don't Democrats, or a separate progressive organization. organize a "get out the vote" program in mostly Red States with crippling legislation against voting? I know this is California, but we all know its the Red States that need the help.

What I mean is a funding campaign, using all kinds of creative ways...More enlightened billionaires like Warren Buffet, rich Hollywood and sports stars, maybe include some kind of GoFundMe account too.

All in the service of paying for IDs that are required in these states that cost money. In the service of transportation to vote. Even to pay employers for time off to vote. Some kind of organized, umbrella org that whose mission is to get as many people, who literally can't afford to vote, to the polls.