That’s the subhead of this Sam Levine piece on Dale Ho’s examination of von Spakovksy yesterday. … Continue reading
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I really wish I could have been there Bryan Lowry: Ho also questioned von Spakovsky about his interpretation of the 14th Amendment, which differs from that of the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. State Department. Von Spakovsky confirmed that he … Continue reading
Bryan Lowry: Video of Kobach’s deposition was screened before a small crowd at the federal courthouse in Kansas City, Kan., Friday against Kobach’s objections as part of a trial that will determine whether thousands can vote in Kansas this fall … Continue reading
Sharp Frank Wilkinson for Bloomberg View: When Kobach ran for office in 2010, he condemned the thousands of dead people and illegal aliens who were poisoning his state’s ballot box with their fraudulent votes. But in his seven years as … Continue reading
Topeka Capital-Journal: American Civil Liberties Union attorneys on Thursday scrutinized examples of questionable voters compiled by the Sedgwick County elections commissioner and reported to Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach. Of the 38 people in Tabitha Lehman’s spreadsheet, only five … Continue reading
HuffPost reports. From May 2017 until January, Kobach led the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, a probe convened by the White House to investigate voter fraud. The commission asked election officials in all 50 states to provide it with … Continue reading
TPM: On multiple occasions, U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson has interrupted questioning to walk Kobach and his crew of lawyers through the intricacies of moves such as admitting evidence and asking witnesses about previous depositions. Robinson, an appointee of President … Continue reading
Bryan Lowry: A federal judge will allow the ACLU to show video of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach speaking about his advice to President Donald Trump as part of a trial that will determine whether thousands can vote in … Continue reading
KCUR: In a committee briefing on security matters Monday, Democratic Rep. Jeff Pittman raised concerns that Kansas could face lawsuits or have to pay for credit monitoring services if some of the records get hacked or improperly released. Kansas currently … Continue reading
Kansas.com: Kobach suggested another witness was also biased. He read aloud tweets from Michael McDonald, a professor at the University of Florida, that disparaged Kobach. One tweet referenced reports that a staffer for Vice President Mike Pence had called Kobach … Continue reading
Byran Lowry for the KC Star. … Continue reading
Sam Levine for HuffPo. … Continue reading
TPM reports. … Continue reading
Charles Blow NYT column: One thing that is clear to me following the special counsel’s indictment of 13 Russians and three companies for interfering with our election is that the black vote was specifically under attack, from sources foreign and domestic. And … Continue reading
More from the indictment: … Continue reading
McClatchy with a voting wars curtain raiser. You are not going to want to miss some of the quotes in this article. … Continue reading
Wichita Eagle: When a federal lawsuit challenging Kansas’s proof of citizenship voter law goes to trial in March, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach plans to be in the courtroom. He’ll be the attorney defending the law he crafted. Rarely, … Continue reading
CBS News: The former chairman of the Colorado Republican Party was sentenced to four years of probation and 300 hours of community service for voter fraud. Steve Curtis blamed a “major diabetic episode” for causing him to vote his ex-wife’s … Continue reading
Release: The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law on Friday filed a lawsuit against the Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security (DHS) for blocking the public release of information related to their efforts to investigate unfounded claims of … Continue reading
Gizmodo: This is started to just get sad. Prior to receiving notice from Gizmodo this morning, Kris Kobach’s office was leaking sensitive information belonging to thousands of state employees, including himself and nearly every member of the Kansas state legislature. … Continue reading
WaPo: President Donald Trump’s election fraud commission asked every state and the District for detailed voter registration data, but in Texas’s case it took an additional step: it asked to see Texas records that identify all voters with Hispanic surnames, … Continue reading
The PBS News Hour reports. … Continue reading
TPM: A federal judge didn’t buy the Justice Department’s argument that Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach couldn’t speak to what was being done with the data collected by the now-defunct voter fraud commission he led. The judge ordered that Kobach or … Continue reading
Tierney Sneed for TPM. … Continue reading
WaPo: The White House’s new filing came as Dunlap urged the court to order the commission to preserve all records pending compliance with the judge’s order. Government attorneys asked the judge to toss out her order, saying it was moot … Continue reading
HuffPost: A White House official told a federal judge Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s now-defunct voter fraud commission plans to delete the voter data it collected from about 20 states and contradicted the administration’s public statements saying the Department of Homeland Security … Continue reading
Read it here. … Continue reading
KC Star: Kobach, a candidate for governor, told The Star last week that he would “be working closely with DHS and the White House as the investigation moves forward.” He said that the agency would be looking for non-citizens on … Continue reading
Matt Dunlap for WaPo. … Continue reading
Jonah Goldberg: Michael Thielen, the executive director of the Republican National Lawyers Association, is upset that the White House disbanded the “voter-fraud commission.” He writes: … President Trump has shut down his Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity (PACEI), also called the … Continue reading
Sam Levine: The Trump administration says it will fight a court order telling its voter fraud commission to hand over communications and documents to a Democratic member who sued the panel and alleged he was being illegally excluded from its decision-making process. … Continue reading
Strong KC Star editorial: The election integrity group had all the hallmarks of a classic Kobach operation — headline-grabbing allegations, poor legal review, finger-pointing followed by inaction, contradictory claims, and eventually, collapse. Kansans will need to decide if that’s how … Continue reading
Great reporting by Kira Lerner, showing what Kobach’s illusion of a voter fraud epidemic looks like up close: For the past few years, Que J. Fullmer has split his time between Kansas and Colorado. He owns a cattle company and … Continue reading
Interesting turnabout: One of the most common arguments made by state officials in refusing to turn over voter registration lists is that the federal government has no business barging in and demanding states provide the information. Von Spakovsky says that … Continue reading
In this Wines/Haberman piece, Trump Closes Voter Fraud Panel That Bickered More Than It Revealed: Vice President Mike Pence, the nominal leader of the commission, was said to have never considered the inquiry a top priority, and Stephen K. Bannon, … Continue reading
Eliza Newlin Carney with a less rosy view than my own of what can happen next at DHS. … Continue reading
Stephen Spauling has written this oped for the Hill. … Continue reading
New: DHS statement says Kris Kobach not advising agency on election work, vague on what it will do to study voter fraud. pic.twitter.com/5LMuMiAm0w — Sam Levine (@srl) January 4, 2018 Contradicting the @DHSgov statement, Kobach tells @npratc he will continue … Continue reading
Breitbart exclusive interview with Kobach: “They have absolutely no interest in stopping voter fraud,” Kobach said. “It’s truly extraordinary that one party in our system has made clear that they don’t care.” “Some people on the Left were getting uncomfortable … Continue reading
Jessica Huseman for ProPublica. … Continue reading
If there were any findings they were not made public. Perhaps the Dunlap or @LawyersComm lawsuits can get the now-defunct Commission to produce the documentation and argue the Press Secretary's statement means the issue is NOT moot. https://t.co/9Uq5jADvZv — Rick … Continue reading
Think Progress: Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap (D) had strong words for Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) on Thursday after Kobach tried to lay blame for the failure of President Trump’s Election Integrity Commission at the feet … Continue reading
Charles Stewart for The Monkey Cage. … Continue reading
Philip Bump for Wapo’s The Fix. … Continue reading
NYT: President Trump on Wednesday abruptly shut down a White House commission he had charged with investigating voter fraud, ending a brief quest for evidence of election theft that generated lawsuits, outrage and some scholarly testimony, but no real evidence … Continue reading
Politico: Democrats and liberal groups rejoiced over the commission’s demise Wednesday, but in an interview with POLITICO Wednesday night, Kobach said that exuberance is misplaced. “Anyone on the left needs to realize that by throwing the food in the air, … Continue reading
Bauer blogs. … Continue reading
CNN: In the wake of the announcement, advisers outlined hesitation from within the White House for months about the commission. “It’s a s–t show,” said one White House adviser to CNN, adding that the commission went “off the rails.”… A … Continue reading
Topeka Capital-Journal: President Donald Trump’s controversial commission on election integrity should meet again in January after being delayed for months because of eight lawsuits demanding its staff’s time, the group’s de facto leader, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, said … Continue reading
Politico: President Donald Trump’s commission investigating voter fraud must give one of its Democratic members access to more of the panel’s records, a federal judge ruled Friday night. U.S. District Court Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap … Continue reading