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By The Associated Press
Published: May 24, 2012 at 8:33 am
The minority leader of the Arizona House has called on Secretary of State Ken Bennett to resign as the Arizona co-chairman of Mitt Romneys campaign after Bennett questioned the validity of President Barack Obamas birth certificate.
Democrat Chad Campbell says Wednesday that its inappropriate for the states top elections officer to publicly support one candidate when trying to keep another off the ballot ...
http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/05/24/campbell-to-bennett-resign-romney-post/
freshwest
(53,661 posts)BTW, for the misinformed Paulites and Repukes still posting here, Hawaii is part of the USA. Just a heads up, morans.
SoutherDem
(2,307 posts)But, if Arizona was a close race and need recounts just as in Florida in 2000. Wouldn't Bennett be the one to lead that? Wouldn't he have the ability to basically decide the election by deciding which ballots were valid and which were not, or as to which districts get recounted and which don't?
emulatorloo
(43,982 posts)Lochloosa
(16,019 posts)Bake
(21,977 posts)I would no more trust the reported election results in AZ than the man in the moon!
Bake
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Force him to resign anyway, he's holding a clear conflict of interest.