Why I Voted for Simon for Secretary of State

Polls don't vote. News coverage doesn't vote.  People do.  Get out there and make your voice heard.

Last day of early voting is Monday 11/7.  Last day to vote is Election Day on Tuesday 11/8. 

The Minnesota Secretary of State's website has all the information you need to vote, including how to register on the day you vote, if you haven't already gotten yourself registered.  Minnesota makes it so easy to vote, so please do.

The "What's On My Ballot?" tool shows you everyone running for each office that's on your ballot where you live and vote, and if there are candidate websites, it gives you the link to them to learn more about them.  It's amazingly helpful for doing your homework on who to vote for (and who NOT to vote for).

There's a positive and a negative to everything on the ballot.

Reasons to vote for your person and against the other person.

For Simon - basically, the guy wants to do the job, and does it well without a lot of nonsense.

The job of Secretary of State is to administer elections and encourage everyone who's eligible to vote to do so, and to make it as easy as possible for them to do it.

We have 46 days of early voting before election day.  I voted weeks ago and have been horribly lax in not encouraging others to do so as well.

Minnesota is a great place for voters.  It's easy to take that for granted.

Against Crockett - they're one of these people who uses phrases like "restoring confidence in elections" - which is just a nice way of saying she doesn't believe T***p lost the last election and she doesn't believe that Joe Biden was legitimately elected president.  She wants to make it "hard to cheat" (it already is) and be sure that "only citizens vote" (that's also already taken care of, thank you).

They want to cut early voting down to just two weeks (for starters, watch it disappear entirely if she gets elected)

She's for Voter ID - nope.

There's all this "he's making voting all political, I'm not doing that" language on her campaign website.  It's all noise and nonsense and gaslighting and misdirection, no thank you. 

Again, not a hard choice.

It's very important we get this one right, or the next time we vote is going to be a LOT harder.