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

Charles is one of the smartest and fairest people working in the field of election administration from the academic side. From his post today: 4. The lost opportunity.  Most people who work in the field of election administration, academics and… Continue reading

Among Doug’s questions: What impact does this have on members of the commission? Several members of the new commission are involved in complicated issues elsewhere. Kansas’ Kobach continues to be the target of numerous lawsuits regarding his state’s voter registration… Continue reading

Bob Bauer, former co-chair of the last (bipartisan) Presidential Commission on Election Administration: This means that the only hope for the Commission to attain respectability is to build a record of consultation with the respectable. And given how the Commission… Continue reading

The Executive order establishing the “voter fraud” commission provides for the VP to chair and up to 15 additional members. Yet the NYT report says it will have “about a dozen” members, and so far we only know the names… Continue reading