Jim Condos, Vt. Secretary of State writes: I am deeply troubled by the announcement that the President signed an executive order establishing a commission to review alleged voter fraud in our elections. Since the 2016 election, President Trump has… Continue reading

Politico: When Kris Kobach, Kansas’ aggressive secretary of state, convinced the state legislature to give him prosecutorial power to pursue voter fraud, he said it was necessary to root out tens of thousands of undocumented aliens who were voting as… Continue reading

Josh Douglas in USA Today: Improving the voting process is a goal worthy of a presidential commission on voting. Trying to bolster the credibility of already-debunked theories of voter fraud is not.

Mark Joseph Stern for Slate: On Monday, the Supreme Court dealt a death blow to North Carolina’s notorious voter suppression law, refusing to review a lower court’s decision to block the measure for “target[ing] African Americans with almost surgical… Continue reading

Tierney Sneed for TPM.

NYT: Kris W. Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state, oversees an office whose clerical and regulatory work costs the state’s taxpayers barely $5.5 million a year. But he has parlayed that modest post into a national platform for tough restrictions… Continue reading

Take Care blog: Evidence suggests that the Commission’s conclusions are also already preordained.  Kris Kobach, co-chair of the new Commission, met with President-Elect Donald Trump in November 2016, in an apparent interview to become Secretary of the Department of Homeland… Continue reading