In their emphatic primary election endorsement for Michele Reagan as Secretary of State, The Arizona Republic stated the following, “In 2013, Reagan put together a sensible, serious-minded package of election-law reforms with the help of all 15 Arizona county election directors, Democrats and Republicans alike.”

Now those reforms, which include a clean-up of outdated mail-in voter lists and a measure to halt the illegal gathering of ballots by paid political operatives, are being falsely portrayed by her opponents as anti-voter. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

The Republic and all the county recorders had it right when they supported Reagan’s stance on these election reform measures. Having accurate mail-in voter lists and stopping political operatives from collecting ballots only makes common sense.

Her consistent support of election reforms, added to her well known stance opposing dark money, is most welcome and should be supported.