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</div><div><h4 style="font-size: small; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Indiana">Indiana</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> 2017, Indiana passed a law allowing the state to purge voters from the rolls without notifying them, based on information from the controversial Crosscheck system. The Indiana <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAACP" title="NAACP" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">NAACP</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Women_Voters" title="League of Women Voters" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">League of Women Voters</a> have filed a federal lawsuit against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_Lawson" title="Connie Lawson" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Connie Lawson</a>, Indiana's Secretary of State, to stop the purges.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_United_States#cite_note-100" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[100]</a></sup> In June 2018, a federal judge ruled that the law violated the National Voter Registration Act</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_United_States#cite_note-101" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[101]</a></sup></font></p></div><div>===</div><div>
</div><div>“If there’s no such thing as voter fraud, or voter fraud is insignificant, then the commission will be able to confirm that,” Mr. Kobach said in an interview. “What are they afraid of? Why do they not want to know these numbers?”<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="412" data-total-count="9050" id="story-continues-13" data-node-uid="1" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.625rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ms. Sanders said the commission would also include the Republicans Connie Lawson, the secretary of state of Indiana, and Kenneth Blackwell, who formerly held that post in Ohio, as well as two top Democratic election officials: William M. Gardner of New Hampshire and Matthew Dunlap of Maine. Christy McCormick, a Republican member of the nonpartisan U.S. Election Assistance Commission appointed by President Barack Obama, has also been selected to serve on the panel.
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...</font></span></a></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px;"><div data-hveid="40" data-ved="0ahUKEwi0vuC1qfLTAhWFsVQKHcHRB6IQFQgoKAEwAQ"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><p style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; white-space: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump signed an executive order Thursday to set up a commission to study his unproven allegations of voter fraud in last year's presidential election, as he continues to grapple with the fallout from his abrupt and <a href="http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2017/05/09/trump-fires-fbi-director-james-comey/101485500/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">controversial firing of FBI Director James Comey</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; white-space: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The commission will be chaired by <a href="http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2016/07/07/trumps-vp-10-things-know-indiana-gov-mike-pence/86746980/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Vice President Mike Pence</a>, who will be joined by up to 15 other members, including Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who has advocated for some of the most restrictive election laws in the country, will serve as the commission's vice chair.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; white-space: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The president's committed to the thorough review of registration and voting issues in federal elections,'' said White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders. "And that's exactly what this commission is tasked with doing.''</font></p><div class="partner-placement partner-spike partner-placement-visible" id="ad-position-53" data-monetization-id="native-article_link" data-monetization-sizes="fluid,3,3" style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); white-space: normal; opacity: 1;"><div id="ad-slot-7103-in-indianapolis-C1532-native-article_link-news-politics-55" class="ad-slot" data-google-query-id="CKjx6PGp8tMCFYUEaQodwRAGgA"><div id="google_ads_iframe_7103/in-indianapolis-C1532/native-article_link/news/politics_0container" style="border: 0pt none; display: inline-block; width: 600px; height: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></div></div></div><p style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; white-space: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump, who lost the popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton by nearly 2.9 million votes, has claimed that last year's election included up to 5 million fraudulent voters — but there is no evidence to back this assertion.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; white-space: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump's executive order creating the "Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity'' comes as Democrats and other critics accuse him of firing Comey to obstruct an ongoing investigation into possible collusion between Trump campaign associates and Russians who tried to influence last year's election.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; white-space: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The president is planning a visit to the FBI headquarters in the coming days to calm the waters, administration officials said. But the unexpected announcement of the new commission — which was not on Trump's public schedule for the day — might be seen as a way to distract from the firestorm unleashed by the Comey firing earlier this week.</font></font></font></p><div class="partner-outstream" style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); white-space: normal;"><p style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; white-space: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Voting rights advocates blasted the new executive order, calling it a distraction that doesn't address pressing issues such voter suppression.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; white-space: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We hold grave concerns about this commission and the impact that it will likely have on minority communities across our country," said Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. “In our view, President Trump has launched this commission to create a distraction from actual threats to our democracy, including ongoing voter discrimination, voter suppression and Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.”</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; white-space: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meanwhile, federal and state election officials from both parties have disputed Trump's claims of massive voter fraud. They say there have been few, if any, incidents of people voting when they were not registered — or voting by people who were not American citizens.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; white-space: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Every election is going to have issues, but I don’t think that 3 to 5 million people voting illegally was one of those issues," said Thomas Hicks, then-chairman of the federal Election Assistance Commission said in <a href="http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2017/01/25/state-and-federal-election-officials-call-trump-fraud-claim-unfounded/97058026/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">January in USA TODAY</a>.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; white-space: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Election officials have said they worry Trump’s claims could shake the faith of voters, particularly at a time when the FBI and Congress are investigating whether Russia interfered in last year’s presidential election.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; white-space: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For his part, Trump has stood by his claim.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; white-space: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We'll see after the committee," Trump told Time magazine in March.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; white-space: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The order calls for the commission to study the "vulnerabilities in voting systems and practices used for federal elections that could lead to improper voter registrations and improper voting, including fraudulent voter registrations and fraudulent voting.''</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; white-space: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The advisory commission set up to "promote fair and honest federal elections'' will hold public meetings and meet with federal state and local officials as well as election experts, according to the order. The commission is expected to present a report to the president next year.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; white-space: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The experts and officials on this commission will follow the facts where they lead,'' Sanders said.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; white-space: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But voting rights advocates expressed doubts. Michael Waldman, president of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, called the commission “a sham and a distraction.’’</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; white-space: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Brennan released a recent national report that disputed Trump's claims of massive fraud. Of 23.5 million votes cast in 42 jurisdictions in last year's general election, about 30 were incidents of suspected noncitizen voting, the report found.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; white-space: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"All studies, including our own, have shown that voter fraud is vanishingly rare,'' Myrna Pérez, deputy director of the Brennan Center's Democracy Program, said in a statement. "And, the myth of voter fraud has been the justification for restrictive voting laws for years, serving to roll back access to our democracy for people all across the country."</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; white-space: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Voting rights advocates say the administration should focus on making access to the polls easier instead of unfounded claims of voter fraud. They argue some lawmakers are using the claim to ramp up more restrictive election laws.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; white-space: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">States, mostly controlled by Republican legislatures, have adopted more election laws, including voter ID laws, in recent years. Supporters say they help protect against voter fraud.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; white-space: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Voting rights advocates also took aim at Trump's appointment of Kobach to the commission. Kobach, a conservative, has been in legal battles in Kansas over some of the state's election laws, including one requiring voters to prove their citizenship before voting.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; white-space: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"No commission with Secretary Kobach at the helm can be taken seriously," said Clarke, from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; white-space: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other commission members include Republicans such as Ken Blackwell, former Secretary of State of Ohio; and Christy McCormick, a commissioner on the Election Assistance Commission. Democrats include Bill Gardner, New Hampshire’s Secretary of State, and Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; white-space: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Clarke said she's surprised to see Trump follow through on his promise to set up the commission considering the lack of evidence. “It’s also disappointing that nowhere in this executive order … is there any sensitivity to this administration’s obligation to enforce federal rights law,'' she said. "There is no reference to voting discrimination or voter suppression. Those words simply do not appear."</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; white-space: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-La., chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, called the commission a waste of taxpayer money.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; white-space: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Instead of supporting an investigation into fake issues like voter fraud that pose no threat to the country, the Trump administration should support an investigation into real issues that do, real issues like Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, campaign collusion and cover-up, and voter suppression and intimidation,'' Richmond said in a joint statement with Michigan Rep. John Conyers, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; white-space: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump's order, however, could get support from some Republican lawmakers, who have welcomed a federal investigation into allegations of voter fraud.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; white-space: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Safeguarding our democracy requires fair and accurate elections,” Rep. 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</b></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div><b>Ever since Indiana State Police raided a voter registration office in Indiana and effectively shut down a voter registration drive aimed at getting African-American voters to the polls, there have been a lot of unanswered questions.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Among the biggest: What actually initiated the state police investigation? What was the motivation? What happens to the thousands of legitimate registration forms submitted through the voter registration drive under investigation?</div><div>
</div><div>Here’s what we know.</div><div>
</div><div>On Oct. 4, the Indiana State Police executed a search warrant and raided the Indiana Voter Registration Project’s office. They took phones, paperwork and computers as evidence in their investigation into alleged voter fraud.</div><div>
</div><div>The raid and subsequent statements about the case by the state police have received a lot of media coverage in Indiana, and nationally. “State Police raid Indy office in growing voter fraud case” read the headline in the state’s largest newspaper, the Indianapolis Star. Another one from the Star: “Top Indiana election official alleges more voter fraud.” The case has also been followed by the Associated Press, The Los Angeles Times and The New Republic.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Exactly what sparked that initial raid, however, is still murky. The LA Times reported the investigation had been “prompted by a tip” and that a Hendricks County Clerk had reported 10 suspicious voter registrations that had “signatures on some forms” that “did not match images in a county database.”</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>The New Republic reported at the end of September that Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson had sent a message to state election officials that “unfortunately, it has recently come to my attention that nefarious actors are operating here in Indiana.”</b></div><div>
</div><div>Lawson also cited 10 voter registration forms she believed were fraudulently filled out and turned in by the Indiana Voter Registration Project, a group that focused on African-American voter registration and was under the umbrella of the <b>D.C.-based group Patriot Majority. </b>But, it was is unclear if she was referring to the same 10 that the Hendricks County clerk was referring to.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">To be clear, under Indiana law, canvassers have to turn in all forms – even ones that are partially filled our or are suspect. Patriot Majority spokesman Bill Buck explained to TPM that the protocol is for someone from the voter registration drive to flag the forms in question to a local election official. It’s unclear if the 10 questionable voting forms referred to by Lawson were also flagged by the Indiana Voter Registration Project.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On Oct. 6, Indiana State Police announced that they were going to expand their investigation from nine to 57 counties in the state. A local NBC affiliate reported that officials believed the number of voter registration forms that could have errors “could number in the hundreds.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>There was no evidence given or further explanation into what the forms in question included.</div><div>
</div><div>Buck told TPM their group has little information about how widespread alleged errors are or even what kinds of errors investigators were looking into. Patriot Majority has also been arguing that Indiana’s voter rolls contain inaccuracies in themselves that may help to explain why some of the voter registration forms they turned in did not match up with the state records.</div><div>
</div><div>“Hundreds of thousands of the Indiana Voter File records are inaccurate, duplicative, outdated, erroneous, invalid, inconsistent, and/or clearly the product of poor data m<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">anagement by Republican Secretary of State Connie Lawson,” Patriot Majority said in a statement this week.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Intensifying the tensions even more, Indiana’s top cop Doug Carter went on WRTV in Indiana last week and said “there’s voter fraud and voter forgery in every state of America,” but he wouldn’t reveal what evidence he had to make such a claim.</span></div><div>
</div><div>“Carter refused to provide details about how many instances of voter fraud police have found, or the exact nature of the fraud — whether investigators found, for example, cases of people registering to vote multiple times or whether those ineligible to vote tried to register,” the LA Times wrote.</div><div>
</div><div>That has worried voting rights advocates who say a state police investigation shortly before an election could have chilling effects on voting as well as perpetuating a false belief that voter fraud is widespread. It is not. Studies have found actual instances of voter fraud are exceedingly rare.</div><div>
</div><div>“I don’t want to allow the specter of fraud to be so overblown that it justifies policies that are a disproportionate response and disenfranchise voters needlessly,” said Myrna Perez, the deputy director of the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program</div><div>In response to the media storm and very public battle over the case, Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry asked Wednesday that the Indiana State Police stop talking about the investigation, which he argued could be jeopardized by the widespread discussions of “voter fraud” that were being tossed around.</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The biggest question remaining, however, is what will happen to the 45,000 individuals the Indiana Voting Project registered.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Perez argued that anyone who registered to vote should still go to their polling place and vote. If they aren’t on the rolls, they should fill out a provisional ballot, but again, the fear of not actually being registered could be a deterrent for voters and something that advocates want to avoid.</div><div>
</div><div>Before the Indiana State Police stopped commenting on the investigation Wednesday, Dave Bursten, the chief public information officer for Indiana State Police told Think Progress that what happens to each of the registrants “will be up to each prosecutor to review the completed investigation and take whatever action they, as the local prosecuting authority, deem appropriate.”</div><div>
</div><div>“Investigations of this nature are complicated and can take an extended period of time to complete,” he added.</div><div>
</div><div>In other words, no one really knows.</div><div>
</div><div>ABOUT THE AUTHOR</div><div>Lauren Fox Lauren Fox is a reporter at Talking Points Memo.</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="cursor: pointer;">
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The head elections officers in most presidential battleground states are <span style="font-weight: bold;">Republicans</span>. ... when <span style="font-weight: bold;">Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson</span> said in a statement ...</font></span></a></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 28px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="88" data-ved="0ahUKEwi0vuC1qfLTAhWFsVQKHcHRB6IQFQhYKAkwCQ"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://indianapublicmedia.org/news/indiana-dems-accusse-sec-state-voter-fraud-allegations-107410/" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Indiana Dems Criticize Sec. 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outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Connie Lawson</span> (born April 20, 1949) is the 61st <i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></a><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://wikivisually.com/wiki/Indiana_Secretary_of_State" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Indiana Secretary of State</a>. A <i id="z10" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://wikivisually.com/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Republican</a>, Lawson is a former member of the <i id="z11" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://wikivisually.com/wiki/Indiana_Senate" data-original-title="" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Indiana Senate</a> where she served as Majority Floor Leader.</i></i></i></font></i></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" /><div id="toc" class="toc" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif"><div id="toctitle" class="toctitle" style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; background: none; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contents</font></i></i></h2></div><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.3em 0px; list-style-type: none; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://wikivisually.com/wiki/Connie_Lawson#Early_life.2C_education.2C_and_career" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="box-sizing: border-box;">1</span> <span class="toctext" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Early life, education, and career</span></font></a></i></i></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://wikivisually.com/wiki/Connie_Lawson#State_Senate" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="box-sizing: border-box;">2</span> <span class="toctext" style="box-sizing: border-box;">State Senate</span></font></a></i></i></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://wikivisually.com/wiki/Connie_Lawson#Secretary_of_State" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="box-sizing: border-box;">3</span> <span class="toctext" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Secretary of State</span></font></a></i></i></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://wikivisually.com/wiki/Connie_Lawson#Awards_and_Honors" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="box-sizing: border-box;">4</span> <span class="toctext" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Awards and Honors</span></font></a></i></i></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://wikivisually.com/wiki/Connie_Lawson#Personal" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="box-sizing: border-box;">5</span> <span class="toctext" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Personal</span></font></a></i></i></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://wikivisually.com/wiki/Connie_Lawson#References" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="box-sizing: border-box;">6</span> <span class="toctext" style="box-sizing: border-box;">References</span></font></a></i></i></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://wikivisually.com/wiki/Connie_Lawson#External_links" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="box-sizing: border-box;">7</span> <span class="toctext" style="box-sizing: border-box;">External links</span></font></a></i></i></li></ul></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" /><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" font-weight="font-weight" normal="normal" line-height="line-height" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" background="background" none="none" rgb="rgb" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" padding="padding" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life.2C_education.2C_and_career" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Early life, education, and career</span></i></i></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lawson was born and raised in <i id="z12" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://wikivisually.com/wiki/Danville,_Indiana" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Danville</a>, located in <i id="z13" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://wikivisually.com/wiki/Hendricks_County" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Hendricks County</a> in central <i id="z14" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://wikivisually.com/wiki/Indiana" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Indiana</a>. She graduated from <i id="z15" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://wikivisually.com/wiki/Danville_Community_High_School" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Danville High School</a>. She attended Darden School of Legislative Leadership and in 1998 she went to Bowhay Institute for Legislative Leadership.</i></i></i></i></font></i></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lawson was elected Clerk of the Hendricks County Circuit Court in 1988, and served two four-year terms before running for the Indiana Senate. As clerk, her responsibilities included maintaining all records of the court and overseeing elections. During this period, Lawson also served as President of the Indiana Clerks’ Association and chair of the group’s legislative committee. This experience would later prove useful in the Senate and as Indiana’s chief elections officer.</font></i></i></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" font-weight="font-weight" normal="normal" line-height="line-height" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" background="background" none="none" rgb="rgb" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" padding="padding" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="mw-headline" id="State_Senate" style="box-sizing: border-box;">State Senate</span></i></i></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After incumbent State Senator Dick Thompson decided to run for Congress in 1996, Lawson joined a five-way Republican primary race for the open seat. She won her party’s nomination and the November General Election, representing the 24th District in west-central Indiana. She was appointed Majority Floor Leader in 2006, the first woman in Indiana to hold this leadership position. She served in the Senate for sixteen years.</font></i></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During her tenure, Senator Lawson chaired the committees on Local Government, Joint Rules, and Elections. She was also assigned to the Tax and Fiscal Policy, Rules and Legislative Procedure, and Appointments and Claims committees.</font></i></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Among her many legislative achievements, Lawson was instrumental in establishing the Department of Child Services to protect Indiana’s children from abuse and neglect. In the 2012 Legislative Session, she authored a local government reform bill aimed at nepotism and conflict-of-interest. Lawson also advocated for the expansion of the <i id="z16" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://wikivisually.com/wiki/Ivy_Tech_Community_College" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Ivy Tech Community College</a> system and the construction of a new campus in Greencastle, Indiana. She championed the photo ID requirement to prevent voter fraud, the option for counties to use vote centers, on-line voter registration capability, <a href="http://wikivisually.com/wiki/HPV" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">HPV</a> education for sixth grade parents, and moved school board elections to the General Election where turnout is higher and more voices are heard on education matters.</i></font></i></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Indiana State Senate 24th District Election Results, November 2, 2004</font></span></i></i></p><table class="wikitable" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 1em 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" word-wrap="word-wrap" break-word="break-word" important="important"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><th style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Candidate</font></th><th style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Affiliation</font></th><th style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Support</font></th><th style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Outcome</font></th></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Connie Lawson (inc.)</font></span></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republican</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">44,783</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">100.0%</font></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Indiana State Senate 24th District Republican Primary Election Results, May 6, 2008</font></span></i></i></p><table class="wikitable" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 1em 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" word-wrap="word-wrap" break-word="break-word" important="important"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><th style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Candidate</font></th><th style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Affiliation</font></th><th style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Support</font></th><th style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Outcome</font></th></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Connie Lawson (inc.)</font></span></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republican</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">10,602</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">79.2%</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Gootee</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republican</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2,778</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">20.8%</font></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Indiana State Senate 24th District Election Results, November 4, 2008</font></span></i></i></p><table class="wikitable" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 1em 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" word-wrap="word-wrap" break-word="break-word" important="important"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><th style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Candidate</font></th><th style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Affiliation</font></th><th style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Support</font></th><th style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Outcome</font></th></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Connie Lawson (inc.)</font></span></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republican</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">53,188</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">100.0%</font></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" font-weight="font-weight" normal="normal" line-height="line-height" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" background="background" none="none" rgb="rgb" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" padding="padding" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Secretary_of_State" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Secretary of State</span></i></i></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On March 16, 2012, Connie Lawson was appointed by Governor <i id="z17" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://wikivisually.com/wiki/Mitch_Daniels" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Mitch Daniels</a> to serve as Secretary of State.<span id="cite_ref-appt_1-0" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 1; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="http://wikivisually.com/wiki/Connie_Lawson#cite_note-appt-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a></span>Governor Daniels called her the obvious choice because of the local and state elections experience she brings to the office. Although she had just over a month to prepare for her first primary election as Indiana’s chief elections officer, Lawson’s extensive experience with elections as a county clerk and state senator resulted in a successfully administered primary.</i></font></i></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Secretary of State is one of five constitutional officers enumerated in the <i id="z18" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://wikivisually.com/wiki/Indiana_Constitution" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Indiana Constitution</a>. The Secretary was originally charged with maintaining state records and preserving the state seal, although the powers of the office have expanded significantly.</i></font></i></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Secretary, Lawson oversees over sixty employees in four divisions (Securities, Business Services, Auto Dealers, and Elections). She travels the state extensively and regularly meets with foreign delegations and her counterparts in other states.</font></i></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition to her government work, Lawson is an advocate for stronger awareness of health issues, such as cervical cancer, lupus, and youth suicide prevention.</font></i></i></p><p><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i id="z9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">--</font></i></i></p></div></div>