“Kansas May Be The Toughest Place to Vote in America”

election administration, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting Wars

John Hockenberry talks to Kansas SOS (and fraudulent fraud squad huckster) Kris Kobach on The Takeaway.

Kobach admits that most noncitizens are registering (or voting) not because they want to commit fraud but because someone else has (mistakenly) told them they could register.

John asks: “Has an election ever been thrown in Kansas because of fraud like this,  and you said ‘many many many’ aliens because of fraud like this, and you weren’t talking about Kansas you were saying around the country?”

Kobach’s answer is laughable, relying on a case out of Missouri involving Somalis which has been debunked.

Here is the first comment on The Takeaway’s website:

 

It’s not surprising that at 4:25 Kobach lied about the Missouri election.

1) There’s NO evidence that “50 non-citizens voted” in that election. The allegation was that some Somali voters — who election judges verified were legally registered to vote and presented identification — may have received improper help from a translator. Those allegations, however, were dismissed by a Missouri court: http://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=41678#24

2) The only two substantiated cases of voter fraud in that election were committed by two U.S. citizens — neither of whom were Somali nationals. Those two people were actually related to one of the candidates and were convicted of voting in a district that they did not live in: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article322208/Missouri-Rep.-John-Joseph-Rizzo%E2%80%99s-relatives-admit-to-voter-fraud.html

3) I found no article from the Kansas City Star that conceded that this election was stolen because of non-citizens voting. I did find an article from the Kansas City Star pointing out all the lies Kobach has made about this case: http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/yael-t-abouhalkah/article322569/Beware-Kobach%E2%80%99s-lie-about-KC-voter-fraud-case.html

4) It’s also important to note that Kobach has worked for several racists organizations, as noted by the the Southern Poverty Law Center multiple times.
https://www.splcenter.org/20110130/when-mr-kobach-comes-town-nativist-laws-and-communities-they-damage

This is what motives Kobach. He invokes the false specter of “aliens” or “Somali nationals” voting in elections to stoke xenophobia among conservative voters.

5) Hockenberry needs to do a better job of fact checking the claims of noted liars like Kobach before they appear on his show and spread misinformation.

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