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…lawsuit from a pair of Douglas County residents, who were placed in suspended status when they tried to register to vote. The suit challenges the state’s requirement that prospective voters must show proof of citizenship in order to vote. Kobach’s office filed a motion in federal court Tuesday to have the case dismissed on the grounds that the plaintiffs lack standing because they are now registered to vote. Kobach’s office registered them after…
Continue reading…omatic that will somehow bring people to the polls is just erroneous,” Mr. Kobach said. “I just think it’s a bad idea. It’s not going to increase participation rates.” Mr. Kobach has pushed for some of the nation’s most restrictive voting laws, including one that requires proof of citizenship. He said automatic registration would make that kind of check impossible. “You’re going to end up with aliens on the voter rolls,” Mr. Kobach said. “It’s ine…
Continue reading…nsidered a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which criticized Kobach’s presence at the event in a post. In a phone call Tuesday afternoon, Kobach described the Social Contract Press as “a think tank for pro-enforcement immigration policies.” He said he discussed President Obama’s recent executive order on immigration, which halted millions of deportations, and the lawsuit brought against the Obama administration by agents for U.S. Imm…
Continue readingSouthern Poverty Law Center, What’s the Matter with Kansas’s Kris Kobach?: On Oct. 25, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach was a featured speaker at a “writers’ workshop” put on by the white nationalist The Social Contract Press (TSCP), according to a report from the Center for New Community. For an elected official, this is a problem. The Social Contract Press is a Michigan-based publishing house that routinely puts out race-baiting articles p…
Continue reading…in the cases filed against them recently by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach. Pettlon said the couple applied for advance voting ballots in Johnson County for the 2010 general election and submitted them. Meanwhile, they were traveling back and forth between their Olathe home and their new residence in Arkansas over several months, sorting and moving their belongings. During that time, they voted in person in Arkansas. “It was a stressful tim…
Continue reading…lumns-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”…
Continue reading…his own political advantage,” said Rep. John Carmichael, D-Wichita, one of Kobach’s most outspoken opponents in the Legislature. Kobach said that “there will never be enough prosecutions” to sway his critics about the need for stricter voting laws. “If we prosecuted, you know, 30 cases this month they would still say that’s not enough voter fraud to worry about,” Kobach said. “They’re never going to be persuaded, nor am I going to try to persuade…
Continue reading…voting rights who say the law was intended to suppress voter turnout. Mr. Kobach was named in a federal lawsuit filed in September by two plaintiffs who had applied to register to vote in Kansas but were added to the roll of incomplete registrants when they did not submit proof of their citizenship. In an interview, Mr. Kobach said culling the list would help address complaints from county clerks that notifying people of the law’s requirements wa…
Continue reading…eing lawfully registered. His first appearance in court is set for Nov. 3. Kobach said his office believes Wilson’s primary residence is Colorado and accused him of serial double voting – voting in both states. “Double voting is a serious crime,” Kobach said. “It undermines the principle of one man or one vote. Regardless of whether a person has property in two jurisdictions or not, the fact that they own property does not entitle them to twice as…
Continue reading…Kubic, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas. Kobach championed a proof-of-citizenship requirement to register to vote, a policy that has left thousands of prospective voters in suspended registration status since January 2013. Beginning this week, his office will remove any names that have been on the suspended list for more than 90 days. He says this will save local election offices money, but the ACLU says it is pri…
Continue reading…hat federal elections have no such requirement. Two voters are challenging Kobach’s decision that those who register to vote using a federal form, which doesn’t require proof of citizenship, can’t cast ballots in state and local elections. A Shawnee County district judge last week allowed that lawsuit to go forward. Earlier this summer, Kobach lost his bid to add the state’s proof-of-citizenship requirements to the federal form. The U.S. Supreme C…
Continue reading…ck County judge to block the release of voting machine tapes sought by a Wichita mathematician who is researching statistical anomalies favoring Republicans in counts coming from large precincts in the November 2014 general election. Secretary of State Kris Kobach argued the records sought by Wichita State University mathematician Beth Clarkson aren’t subject to the Kansas open records act and their disclosure is prohibited by Kansas statute. His…
Continue reading…000 voters statewide who have registered to vote but yet to show documentary proof of citizenship. The controversy is about to kick up another notch as Secretary of State Kobach seeks to adopt new regulations that would allow the state to trim the list of people who have not responded….
Continue readingLawrence-Journal World editorial: Secretary of State Kris Kobach and election officials in Sedgwick County should welcome an audit that would compare election results reported by voting machines in that county with the paper backup that records each ballot cast on the machines. If these election officials are concerned with protecting the accuracy and integrity of Kansas elections, they should want to know for sure whether the voting machines the…
Continue reading…e Committee* American Tradition Partnership v. Bullock* McCutcheon v. FEC* Kobach v. EAC Earlier description: The 2015 supplement is shipping in time for fall classes, and will now include edited versions of the Evenwel one person, one vote case in the district court and the Supreme Court’s recent opinion in Williams-Yulee. Here’s an earlier written description of the supplement: The 2015 Supplement to the fifth edition of Election Law: Cases and…
Continue readingThe order list is here. This is a very big deal. Kobach had the potential to shift more power away from the federal government in administering elections toward the states. The question was whether the states of AZ and KS could force the federal government to require citizenship documentation to accompany the universal federal form for voter registration. This is a huge win for those who want to see a greater federal role and uniformity in electi…
Continue readingKobach in the KC Star: Real double voting occurs when a person intentionally votes twice in two different jurisdictions. And it happens with alarming regularity. Indeed, it appears that quite a few non-Kansans saw the media reports about Kansas’ close races for governor and senator last November, and they decided to cast ballots in both Kansas and their states of residence. Rose similarly brushes aside the problem of aliens voting, dismissing it…
Continue reading…. Brace yourself, Kansas voters, as he’s unlikely to put them in a drawer. Kobach is such a zealot on the nonissue of voter fraud that he didn’t even wait to start investigations until Gov. Sam Brownback had signed the bill, which occurred Monday. Kobach said three attorneys in his office will work on potential cases at least part time, and he likely will handle some as well. He claimed he’s homing in on more than 100 possible cases of double voti…
Continue reading…es such abuse is rampant. Facts have never borne out the contention. Neither have his own actions. In February, the Associated Press proved that, contrary to his claims, he’d never forwarded any cases of suspected fraud for prosecution to the Kansas attorney general. Now it’s Kobach’s turn. He’s been empowered by legislators who unwisely thought it prudent to give him prosecutorial power. But he’ll need to prove charges, and not with innuendo, but…
Continue reading…Docket. If it is likely to take the case, it may get put over to a second conference for continued vetting—perhaps over or at the end of the summer? Or maybe we wil know by the end of the term. Here is my earlier post on what’s at stake….
Continue reading…4 2:18 pm by Rick Hasen You can read the unanimous 10th Circuit opinion in Kobach v. U.S. EAC, reversing the lower court,at this link. Kansas and Arizona tried to force the federal government to require those who register to vote using a simple federal form for voter registration include proof of citizenship if the voter is a KS or AZ resident. (Update: To be clear, this case concerns only whether AZ or KS have to accept federal form without addit…
Continue readingWichita Eagle: Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court decision and restore a state law he wrote requiring proof-of-citizenship documents to register to vote. Kobach wants the Supreme Court to undo the November decision by the Denver-based 10th Circuit Court of Appeal, in a case pitting Kansas and Arizona against the federal Election Assistance Commission and a bevy of voting rights grou…
Continue reading…end to the prosecution of African-American suspects. A caller to the Kris Kobach Show on KCMO Talk Radio asked if Kobach thought that, based on President Obama’s instruction against the enforcement of some immigration laws, it would be possible that one day the president would announce that “any black person accused of a crime, charged with a crime, is not going to be prosecuted, regardless of the crime.” The question prompted Kobach to refer to…
Continue reading…Democrat Chad Taylor on the U.S. Senate ballot. (“The law is very clear,” Kobach said at the time. Apparently, not clear enough.) He pushed through a voter ID law. He tried to limit some registrants to casting ballots only in federal races. He now wants the right to prosecute voter fraud. Does anyone think Kobach took those steps to make voting easier? No. Don’t let Democrats off the hook. Already some in Kansas are saying straight-ticket voting…
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