Minnesota Sec Of State Defeats Cultist Election Denier

November 9, 2022 Democrats, Politics

CBS News reports:

DFL incumbent Steve Simon is projected to win a third term as Minnesota’s secretary of state, defeating Republican challenger Kim Crockett, AP reports. Simon will continue to oversee the administration of elections in Minnesota, a state known for its consistently high voter turnout.

Crockett, an attorney, campaigned on a platform that sought to increase confidence in the state’s election system. She pushed for changes that included narrowing Minnesota’s 46-day early voting period and requiring a special voter identification card – a move that was previously rejected by voters in a 2012 constitutional amendment.

She also criticized Simon’s decisions that made voting easier during the pandemic, calling the moves “lawless and partisan.”

Mother Jones reports:



Crockett made headlines in 2019 when, as the head of a right-wing think tank, she spoke to the New York Times about Somali resettlement efforts in Minnesota.

“I think of America, the great assimilator, as a rubber band, but with this—we’re at the breaking point,” Crockett told the Times. “These aren’t people coming from Norway, let’s put it that way. These people are very visible.”

Earlier this year, at the state’s Republican convention, Crockett played an anti-Semitic campaign video depicting George Soros, the Jewish billionaire and frequent donor to liberal causes, as a puppet master controlling Simon, who is Jewish.

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