Which of these doesn't belong?

On September 12th, Governor Riley announced his team (see here also) for bringing Alabama into compliance with the federal mandate for a new statewide voter registration system.

 

The four members of this team include former Secretary of State Jim Bennett; Lawrence County Probate Judge Rip Proctor;  Sid McDonald, a former UA trustree and state finance director; and  Trey Granger, former legal counsel to Secretary of State Nancy Worley.

 

Jim Bennet was an excellent Secretary of State and promoted election reform the whole time he was office.  Judge Proctor is one of the best probate judges in the state and indeed is an expert on Alabama election law.  I'm not sure what Sid McDonald brings in the way of election experience, but as a former state finance director, he should have useful knowledge of the state purchasing rules.

 

In my opinion, the weak link on this team is Trey Granger. Although he's Montgomery County's director of elections, he has worked in elections for only 3 years. But, worse than that, he served as Nancy Worley's attorney during the entire period that Worley should have been working toward complying with federal law. 

 

There is no record that Granger worked to keep Worley and the Secretary of State's office in line with federal law. If anything, as Worley's attorney, we can speculate that he her on how to cover her abundance of behind the closer she came to being in violation of the federal mandate.

 

Worley was quite distraught at the prospect of Jim Bennett working with the governor on this project. I can only wonder if Granger, a former Siegelman appointee, was a bone thrown to Worley by the Republican governor.