Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill says he will have some say in who gets selected to serve on a federal election fraud panel led by Vice President Mike Pence….
Merrill said he knew about the plan to form a panel since last February after the National Association of Secretaries of State sent a team of secretaries of state to meet with Pence.
According to Merrill, the team included three secretaries of state: Connie Hudson of Indiana, Kris Kobach of Kansas and Tom Schedler of Louisiana.
Kobach contacted Merrill in early April, he said, and that’s when he was told he would have influence in selecting people who would serve as members of the panel.