Tanisha Sullivan, head of Boston's NAACP chapter, launched a bid for secretary of state on Tuesday, telling Jim Braude on Greater Boston that she's running to protect and advance voting rights, as well as open up conversations about expanding access to public records.
"In this urgent moment, I do believe it calls for us to usher in some new and fresh perspective on how we might be able to better protect and expand our democracy," Sullivan said.
Massachusetts is behind some other states in areas such as mail-in balloting and same-day voter registration, according to Sullivan.
"We cannot possibly even think about leading on issues relative to our democracy until we actually catch up," she said.
Sullivan pointed to an issue of transparency, that Massachusetts is the only state in which all three branches of government believe they are exempt from public records laws. "We need to do all we can to ensure that public records are accessible, transparent, and that we have the supports in place to ensure that folks know how to use that information," she said.
Watch: Tanisha Sullivan on her run for Secretary of State
