Kris Kobach Quotes

I ask the GOP leaders also to stand up for the integrity of the American electoral process.

Paul Ryan, was saying [on election 2016 "I don't see any evidence of systemic fraud."

Elections with integrity are a challenge everywhere, including in the West.

How can we tell our children if we do not make reasonable efforts to count every vote.

In Russia we are not fighting to win elections. We are fighting to have elections.

The very foundation of our democracy depends on the integrity of our elections.

Our elections are too important to risk even the appearance of impropriety.

We need election reform because our elections are being stolen. And these huge powerful voting machine vending companies have privatized the election process in our country.

I think its ridiculous. I mean the voter ID situation has turned out to be a very unfair development. We may have people vote 10 times.

I care about the presidential elections. I always vote. Sometimes I've voted more than once, illegally. But you can't anymore. The picture ID has ruined everything.

We need election systems that are free from fraud, discrimination, and partisan influence and that are more, not less, accessible to the citizens of this country.

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.

Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this.

Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the too-mentally-impaired to function, cancels out the votes of citizens who are exercising their rights - that's suppression by any light.

If you double count some votes, that makes other votes disenfranchised.

In my precinct, every person who showed up got to vote. I had to hack into the machines so that they could, but it was not hard to do. The scary thing about it is that I could have just as easily changed votes or allow people to vote multiple times. The machines are not very reliable, and they are easy to tamper with. I’m not even a computer expert. But my job was to ensure that everyone who showed up could vote, and that’s what I did. People all over the county were being denied their right to vote, but not at our precinct.

Elections shall be open, free and equal, and no power, civil or military, shall at any time interfere to prevent an un-trammeled exercise of the right of suffrage.

No election in the United States is wholly free from human or machine error.

Elections should be prepared as well as possible and raise as little doubt as possible

I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.

Every election in America has some fraud and some human error.

We find that fraud in election is an old ulcer … it is too old, it is too malignant, to warrant any generous surgery. We have got to cut it out if healthy flesh comes with it. If we do disfranchise now and then an honest elector it is really for his own benefit and the benefit of his own State and county.

Voter suppression is wrong even if it’s not racist. Any legislation that exists for the sole purpose of making it more difficult for an otherwise eligible person to vote is unethical. It’s straightforward cheating.

I am very confident that in 2008, people's votes will count. I don't think they did in 2004. I think in 2008, they will.