del.icio.usOn the front page of The Nation's web site today, John Nichols' A Plan to Fix Our Broken Elections proclaims, Massachusetts candidate John Bonifaz has the right program to restore democracy.
Nichols writes, "Some of us have been writing and talking about this country's almost fully dysfunctional electoral systems for the better part of a decade." Secretary of state positions "have to be occupied by champions of democracy who believe that protecting and the promoting the right to vote must be the central function of local and state election officials."
[Bonifaz] has persevered with a primary campaign that has spoken well and wisely of the need to fix our broken election systems. His small "d" democratic commitment has earned Bonifaz enthusiastic endorsements from newspapers such as the Boston Phoenix, one of the nation's premier alternative weeklies, and the New Bedford Standard-Times, which declared last week that, "Mr. Galvin has not used his office enough to push through voting reforms that make Massachusetts a shining example and a leader in reviving democracy at the local level. Mr. Bonifaz will be that champion for the voter."
