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Carnahan election mismanagement gets national attention (again)

June 9, 2009

A week after Secretary of State Robin Carnahan’s mismanagement of Missouri elections was thrust into the national spotlight, an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal raises questions about a case involving the state’s chief elections officer. From the article:

“Registration numbers from the November 2008 election show that more than a dozen counties in Missouri have more registered voters than the Census shows they have voting-age residents. Clearly, the state isn’t keeping its lists current. However, in March, one month after Secretary of State Robin Carnahan (a Democrat and the defendant in the lawsuit) announced she was running for the Senate seat being vacated by Republican Kit Bond, the Justice Department dismissed the lawsuit without explanation.”