Kris Kobach Quotes
And when a few noncitizens vote, those can swing a close election.
Hegeman, Roxana. "Kobach takes stand in Kansas voting rights trial." Associated Press, 9 Mar. 2018.
At a Kansas State legislative hearing Kobach admitted that there only 5 cases that they had found of non-citizen voting, and 6 cases that were referred to prosecutors for alleged “double voting” (voting in Kansas and another state). The Prosecutors refused to go ahead with any of the alleged charges for lack of evidence. Mr. Kobach had a unique definition of “many, many”.
In the beginning of the 21st century, many republican state legislatures attempted to change the voting laws to eliminate the possibility of voter fraud which was not a serious practical problem in America. However, a consequence—some argue indented and some argue unintended—was that it was harder for certain groups of people to meet the new requirements and therefore was a de facto voter suppression for some people such as the very elderly, the homeless, and the poor. Many of these efforts were declared unconstitutional by the courts.
They were voting on ignoring the fraudulent vote count in Dallas County, Alabama. The counter argument was that it would disenfranchise those honest voters of the country whose votes would not then be counted.
More than 80 voting machines in Detroit malfunctioned on Election Day resulting in ballot discrepancies in 59% of precincts that raise questions about the reliability of the 2016 Presidential Vote in Michigan. The state of Michigan, like many other states, would not approprate sufficient funds toi keep election equipment properly maintained. What was an irony about the 2016 Election errors in Detroit, the Michican State Law actually forbade doing manual recounts. Polioticans throughout America during that decade had been passing all kinds of legislation to prevent voting by people why were ineligible (a problem which was almsot non existant) and would do very little to get their own election commissions the equipment and personnel that they needed to avoid vote counting errors.
Kris William Kobach is an American politician who served as the 31st Secretary of State of Kansas. A former Chairman of the Kansas Republican Party, Kobach came to national prominence over his far-right anti-immigration views, including involvement in the implementation of high-profile anti-immigration ordinances in various American cities. Kobach is also known for his calls for stronger voter ID laws in the United States, a national registry of immigrants and visitors from countries with active extremist organizations, and his advocacy for anti-abortion legislation. He has made claims about the extent of voter fraud in the United States that studies and fact-checkers have concluded are false or unsubstantiated.
