Kris Kobach Quotes

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.

It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur.

I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia.

There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.

This is not the first time. We’ve had this problem in nearly every election that we administer in the city of Detroit.

It is a travesty for anyone who is elected to office, who serves in an elective office, to engage in voter suppression.

Voter fraud is a reality in American elections, but it is typical of the candidate to confuse anecdote with data and turn allegation into conspiracy.

Clearly, dirty election rolls can mean dirty elections.

During my time in the Texas State Legislature, I witnessed firsthand the lack of evidence behind the rampant claims of voter fraud and the obstacles voters would face if the 2011 photo Voter ID were put in place.

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

Americans are struck by lightning with greater frequency than they commit voter impersonation fraud, and that's the only kind of fraud that photo ID requirements could have any hope of preventing.

And when a few noncitizens vote, those can swing a close election.

Every time an alien votes, it cancels out the vote of a U.S. citizen!

Pretending that voter fraud does not exist puts the integrity of our voting process at risk.

Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced his resignation on Thursday, leaves a dismal legacy at the Justice Department, but one of his legal innovations was especially pernicious: the demonizing of state attempts to ensure honest elections.

Unlike their Western counterparts, Africans take elections very seriously - rising up early to queue patiently in line for hours under the hot sun and cast their ballots. Any misguided attempt to nullify or steal their votes will evoke a strong reaction from them.

The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobilized in over 30 states to stop it. These efforts are very partisan.

To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.

You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.

No U.S. citizen is being kicked off any voter rolls.

Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.

The United States Supreme Court has voted 6-3 that voter photo ID is constitutional.

We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.

It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.

We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices.