At 04:19 PM 8/12/2007, Peter Barath wrote: >But we don't have the slightest idea what a "Secretary of State >of California" means. "Secretary of State of US" is US term for >European "Minister of Foreign Affairs", but we have doubt that >a US member state has such thing. Is it like a "Justice Minister", >or a "Minister of Home affairs" (police and/or municipalities), >or "Senior State Prosecutor", "Head of Supreme Court" or >something else?
Suggestion. Don't know what a term means, look it up on Wikipedia. From "Secretary of State," pretty quickly you would have found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_State_%28U.S._state_government%29 From that article: >The most common, and arguably the most important, function held by >Secretaries of State is to serve as the state's chief elections >official. In 38 states, ultimate responsibility for the conduct of >elections, including the enforcement of qualifying rules, oversight >of finance regulation, establishment of actual election-day >procedures, falls on the Secretary of State. (Florida is one of the >many states in which this is true, and for this reason Florida's >Secretary of State in ><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election%2C_2000>2000, > ><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Harris>Katherine Harris, >became one of the few people holding this position to become known >outside of her own state.) It should all make sense now. The California S of S wrote to the web site arranging vote trading because the S of S was the official directly concerned with elections. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
