John Merrill
The Public Record
If you are too sorry or lazy to get up off your rear and to go register to vote, then you don't deserve that privilege. As long as I am Secretary of State of Alabama, you are going to have to show some initiative to become a registered…
At one time, our laws were written to reduce or eliminate minority participation in the electoral process.
Much like Thomas Jefferson suggested that that government which governs best governs least. That is the sum of good government.
In Michigan, we have taken steps to modernize and safeguard our voter registration database, the backbone of our election administration system.
Tomorrow, Secretary Merrill, a Republican, and myself, a Democrat, are leading a bipartisan group of Secretaries of State to visit Selma, Alabama.
Significant Federal overreach has been indicated through the introduction of this legislation.
The only people that need to be voting in U.S. elections are United States citizens.
A good election security bill would be one that would create the necessary resources to the States without creating unfunded or underfunded mandates.
These people fought--some of them were beaten, some of them were killed--because of their desire to ensure that everybody that wanted to had the right to register to vote and participate in the process. I'm not going to cheapen the work…





