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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUnsealed Documents Show That Kris Kobach Is Dead Set on Suppressing the Right to Vote
As the de facto head of President Trumps election commission, Kobach has positioned himself to lead an all-out assault on the right to vote.
Here are three big plays from Kobachs voter suppression playbook.
Play 1: Disenfranchise new voters with severe registration restrictions
Before Kris Kobach took office as secretary of state, Kansans could register to vote the same way that people do in virtually every other state in the country: by submitting a sworn oath of citizenship under penalty of perjury. In 2013, Kobach implemented a law he had pushed through the Kansas Legislature two years earlier, requiring people to track down a citizenship document such as a passport or birth certificate or be barred from the ballot box. The new system proved disastrous for ordinary voters.
Large numbers of citizens disproportionately minorities dont have a passport or birth certificate on hand and dont have the money to obtain replacement documents. By December 2015, more than 35,000 Kansans had been disenfranchised approximately 14 percent of all registration applications since the requirement went into effect. The National Voter Registration Act popularly known as the Motor-Voter law prohibits unduly harsh registration rules and requires that states make voter registration easy and straightforward.
https://www.aclu.org/blog/voting-rights/fighting-voter-suppression/unsealed-documents-show-kris-kobach-dead-set
dalton99a
(83,883 posts)meow2u3
(24,899 posts)spanone
(137,448 posts)librechik
(30,784 posts)You make him sound like a total monster!
world wide wally
(21,805 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)Duh, I know. That's not news to anybody here..
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)remember that Trump is busily packing the federal bench with judges who are somewhat to the right of Atilla the Hun and who will agree with Korbach. And if Trump gets to plant one more justice on SCOTUS that's the ball game.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Work with ACLU, Let America Vote, Turnout PAC. And work on 2018 elections. Control what you can control.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)If GOP holds the house and Senate in 2018, American democracy will be damaged for decades. We must work on the 2018 elections like crazy.
yesphan
(1,599 posts)Girard442
(6,381 posts)Erase that phrase from your vocabulary. Whatever it is, they would do that if they need to to win.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)calimary
(83,901 posts)Hes from Kansas. And look how well that state is doing these days!
Gothmog
(153,721 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)orangecrush
(21,215 posts)This is revolting.
So should we.
Solly Mack
(92,299 posts)BadgerMom
(2,939 posts)ACLU is one of my monthly donations. Now.
Initech
(101,542 posts)I mean who needs the Taliban and ISIS when we have the GOP, the Heritage Foundation, and the NRA?
Initech
(101,542 posts)We've always known how racist, sexist, homophobic, and misogynistic the GOP has been. But with Trump and the alt right, the real hate mongers are coming out of their shell. And the whole world now knows how dangerous they really are. We live in dark times right now.
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)It's what he does.
lordsummerisle
(4,652 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,593 posts)that we are paying their salaries and the cost of that damned agency to usurp our Constitution and what millions have worked so hard to build for many decades.
And to top it off, as a defense, we have to privately fund groups such as ALCU and SPLC to counter these bastards.