Naïveté

by Tom Tunny, Hamilton

“The quality of being naïve; lack of experience, wisdom, or judgment; innocence or unsophistication.” Some people consider a naïve person to be endearing, cute or innocent. These qualities have their place, but not with the politics of President Trump and his compatriots who are counting on the “naïveté” of the American people to allow him to carry out actions that are destructive to our democracy.

Such is the case when he insists/demands that States send him the voter registration information for all their citizens. His Department of Justice has sued “Blue States” for this information, leaving “Red States” to make their own decisions. Eileen O’Connor of the Brennan Center for Justice states: “The DOJ has asked states to agree to a ‘confidential memorandum of understanding’ (MOU) in connection with handing over their full voter files. That agreement reveals both the DOJ’s plans to interfere with the states’ authority to run elections and how dangerously insecure the sensitive data will be in the department’s hands. It provides yet more evidence of the administration’s campaign to interfere with upcoming elections.”

Elections, whether federal or local, are the responsibility of individual states, in our case, Montana! They are not subject to any federal interference. However, some 10 plus states (“Red States”) so far have turned over this information (including name, date of birth, residential address, driver license number, and partial Social Security numbers) to President Trump and Attorney General, Pam Bondi.                     

It has been reported that the latest Secretary of State to give away our information is our own SOS Christi Jacobson. The aforementioned MOU requires the Sec of State to delete the names of individuals that Feds determine are not eligible to vote. No criteria is given by the Feds as to how they decide who is not eligible to vote! To ask Ms. Jacobson what info she did provide and why she would give away our (your) private/personal information to President Trump, you can call her at 406-444-2034 before your name is deleted from the voter rolls!