Trump’s GOP Hitman Who’s Stealing Your Vote

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

http://www.gregpalast.com/trumps-gop-hitman-whos-stealing-your-vote-the-best-democracy-money-can-buy-podcast/

Greg Palast: Kris Kobach is the most influential Republican Secretary of State in America - the Katherine Harris of 2016.

He's one of the very first governmental Republican supporters of Donald Trump. Anne Coulter has said Trump should pick him as his running mate. This guy is an important cat.

What's he up to? He's “saving” America from an invasion of aliens - not from outer space, but from other nations, wading the Rio Grande to vote in American elections. He claims there is a mass incursion of illegal aliens coming to the US to vote for Hillary.

The federal government, despite a massive and costly hunt, has found almost no non-citizen has voted. (Florida’s campaign to stop alien voters netted a single conviction—an Austrian who registered Republican, while threatening the votes of 181,000.) Yet, Kobach asserts the alien voter ships are real. To prevent this crime that doesn't happen, he's required anyone registering to vote in Kansas to prove their citizenship.




Thwarted By The Courts, Kris Kobach Finds Yet Another Way To Restrict Voting

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/kobach-proof-of-citizenship

Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state with a long history of pushing a stridently conservative agenda on voting rights and immigration, is back in the news again -- this time, for the actions of one of his former underlings.

Late last month, Kobach was granted permission by the newly-appointed executive director of a federal voting commission to require proof of citizenship in order to register to vote. The decision -- issued unilaterally by Brian Newby, who previously worked under Kobach as an elections official in Kansas' largest county -- was a major surprise that was done without the say of the members of the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission (EAC), which had rejected Kobach's request for the change twice before.

The revised EAC guidance represented a major win for Kobach, who had been stymied by the courts in his efforts to fully implement his state's proof-of-citizenship requirement. It is a blow to voting rights advocates who have opposed proof of citizenship requirements on the grounds that procuring the necessary documents will make ballot access harder people who are perfectly eligible to vote.

The proof-of-citizenship requirement is a union of Kobach's years-long crusade for tougher measures targeting undocumented immigrants and for voting regulations that restrict access to the ballot. As a law professor, Kobach helped write the Arizona anti-immigration law SB 1070, which was eventually gutted by the Supreme Court. Since Kobach won election as Kansas' top election official, he not only championed voter restrictions, but also aggressively pursued prosecutions of alleged cases of voter fraud. Experts widely agree that instances of actual voter fraud are extremely rare, especially when compared to the number of otherwise eligible voters believed to be disenfranchised by restrictions like voter ID.

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1. This nasty little weasel is a former protege of John Asscroft where he

first won his spurs trying to deny voting rights. He then went on to starting the movement begun in Hazleton PA that passed laws to prevent the inhabitants from renting a room or apartment to anyone they suspected of being 'undocumented' and telling city services (water, light) that it was illegal for them to provide those services to suspected undocumented aliens. Not content with that he serves as ALEC's point in spreading these "papers please if you want to vote" all over the country while making sure that Kansas also served as a 'laboratory' in obstructing voters at every turn. I hate this slimy little bastard with the flames of 1,000,000 suns and truly hope that there is a hell so that one day he will burn in it.