Kobach Came After Me
By BEN STRAUSS
May 21, 2017
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 well as tens of thousands more who he claimed were voting in two states ...
“He promised he was going to deliver all these illegal alien voters in Kansas,” said John Carmichael, a Democratic state representative from Wichita, who has sparred with Kobach. “But we've got nine people in two years—and most of them are law-abiding United States citizens, who just need better education” ...
Kobach .. told me there could be 18,000 noncitizens registered to vote in Kansas. Dale Ho, the director of the Voting Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, said that number was derived from a study with a sample size of less than 40 people. Six noncitizens with temporary Kansas drivers licenses told a researcher they had registered to vote or tried to. Ho looked through Kansas’s voter files to find the six people, but found none of them ...
... At least seven of those convicted were registered Republicans and over the age of 60 ...
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/21/kris-kobach-voter-fraud-investigation-prosecution-215164
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