Governor Kay Ivey’s campaign recently released a video where she says “big tech and blue state liberals stole the election from Donald Trump” and election results “will always be audited.”
One candidate for Alabama Secretary of State said he was glad to hear that from the governor but wishes she spoke up on those issues sooner.
Secretary of State candidate Chris Horn joined WVNN’s “The Yaffee Program” Wednesday to discuss steps he would take to secure election in the Yellowhammer State if elected.
“First of all my campaign is all about election integrity, election security,” he said. “It’s my birthright. As I’ve said before, my parents, and grandparents, and great uncles who were in the military did not have the right to vote, so their vote was stolen a long time ago, so I’m best prepared because of that legacy and that tradition to understand it.”
Horn also reacted to Ivey’s video touting her record on election integrity.
“The governor, after a couple of years, I had never heard her say anything about the election being stolen,” he responded, “and I certainly don’t know any wide-scale audits that we’re doing, so I’m a little bit confused by the last point.”
The candidate said his campaign has been on the issue of election audits from the beginning.
“It seems like she’s been following me around the state,” he quipped, “because I’ve been calling for audits.”
Horn added that he likes hearing Ivey talk about this issue but questioned why she has waited until now to do so.
“I’m proud to see that the governor is in favor of those type of measures,” he continued, “but I’m saddened because it just feels like it’s happening a few weeks before the election.”
He also pointed out that his opponents in the race didn’t have a good record when it comes to election security.
“I have not seen my opponents call for audits,” he argued. “I just do not understand. One of my opponents has been working in the elections office for 24 years or something like that, and I know that Zeigler was the auditor and it seems as though the auditor himself would be very aggressive about what’s he’s done for the past eight years to try to be a part of working with the Secretary of State, in terms of at least counting the equipment or how many ballots we have or having a relationship with the SOS. I certainly haven’t heard anything from Wes about audits.”
Horn argued that being somewhat of an outsider was why he was the right man for the job.
“Before an election, people who’ve been in Montgomery for their whole professional life never put together an audit system that’s effective,” he explained. “Now, all of a sudden, because of 2020 they want to do it, so if we want to do something different then come to our team.”
Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” Weekdays 9-11am on WVNN. You can follow him on Twitter @Yaffee
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