With the caucus having been moved up a month earlier this year than in the past couple of decades at least, it seems it would be even more important for the SOS to promote the caucuses–or at least raising awareness of the earlier date–certainly should be doing that at least a month out.

If it was [sic] that you didn’t understand, that a term used when one is quoting someone who misspelled something to show that the writer knows that it is not the way the word is spelled and they are quoting the original person verbatim. And that is the end of English class.

Right, want to try that again? The cards that were mailed by the Secretary of State’s office to first time voters in 2006 (which were meant to tell them all they needed to know for election day) didn’t include all of the forms of identification that voters they could take to the polls to prove their identity. She also didn’t notify residential facilities and battered women’s shelters about a new law which helped the residents of the facilities vote.

Kiffmeyer opposed the new forms of ID and the provisions to help shelters in the Legislature, and then strangely her office didn’t inform people of the new rules. That’s what I’d call “hidding [sic] information.”

The SoS site under Kiffmeyer had no front page mention of Caucuses in the first couple days of January, either. A smart oppo blogger, close to Kiffmeyer and with contacts in the SoS office, would know updates aren’t likely over the holidays.

I suppose Ritchie also got the brochure on caucuses written, designed and posted within a few hours of MDE’s post?

After Kiffmeyer left office, a routine Legislative Audit was conducted on the Secretary of State office for 2005 and 2006.[2] This audit concluded that the office hired 16 employees at a pay rate that exceeded their collective bargaining agreement without obtaining approval from the Department of Employee Relations resulting in total overpayment to employees of over $190,000. The explanation given in the audit was because the office mistakenly believed it retained this delegated authority. There were also instances of Kiffmeyer’s mileage reimbursement starting from her home in Big Lake, Minnesota instead of from her office, and lack of a clear “public purpose” explanation for some of Kiffmeyer’s travel.[3] Kiffmeyer resolved these issues with the office following the report. (from wikipedia)