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Kris Kobach, head of Trump's Voter Fraud Panel, finds sweeping failures to follow proper voting procedures

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Oh wait, I messed up my words. Kris Kobach, head of Trump's Voter Fraud Panel, FOUND to have failed to follow proper voting procedures and direct orders from federal judge.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/us/kris-kobach-voter-fraud.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

Kris Kobach, Face of Trump’s Voter Fraud Panel, Is Held in Contempt by Judge

 

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Kris W. Kobach, the secretary of state of Kansas and face of the Trump administration’s efforts to clamp down on supposed voter fraud, was found by a federal judge on Wednesday to have disobeyed orders to notify thousands of Kansans in 2016 that they were registered to vote.

Mr. Kobach, who served last year as the vice chairman of the Trump administration’s short-lived presidential commission on voter fraud, was reprimanded in a 25-page ruling by Federal District Judge Julie A. Robinson of Kansas, who held him in contempt of court.

Mr. Kobach has championed restrictive laws on voting around the country, warning that voting fraud is rampant and unchecked, despite widespread agreement from election experts that it is extremely rare. But voting rights advocates pointed to the judge’s findings as a counter to Mr. Kobach’s efforts to position himself as a protector of the voting process.

“Secretary Kobach likes to talk about the rule of law,” Dale Ho, director of the Voting Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a statement. “Talk is cheap, and his actions speak louder than his words.”

A law went into effect in Kansas in 2013 that required proof of citizenship to register to vote, one of the strictest such laws in the country. But in May 2016, Mr. Kobach lost a challenge to the law brought by the A.C.L.U., and Judge Robinson ordered him to notify people who had tried to register while renewing or applying for a driver’s license that they were indeed eligible to vote.

Judge Robinson did not impose a fine or other sanctions, but ordered Mr. Kobach to pay “reasonable” legal fees to the A.C.L.U.

Moriah Day, a spokeswoman for Mr. Kobach, said that the secretary of state would appeal the decision and had no other comment.

Mr. Kobach is vying for the Republican nomination for governor in Kansas, running on his record as a proponent of restrictive laws on immigration and voting rights. He is challenging Gov. Jeff Colyer, who succeeded Sam Brownback earlier this year after Mr. Brownback accepted an ambassadorship in the Trump administration.

Mr. Kobach represented himself in a trial in March in Judge Robinson’s courtroom, where he is defending the 2011 proof-of-citizenship law.

Mr. Kobach was previously fined $1,000 for his “deceptive conduct and lack of candor” before a federal court. That penalty was upheld by Judge Robinson last year.

 

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14 minutes ago, deac_tracy said:

It always amazes me how this guy went to Harvard undergrad, Yale law and got a PhD from Oxford yet he sounds like a dude from infowars

No one is immune from being indoctrinated to the eyeballs on absolute bullshit.

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28 minutes ago, ROFL BOX said:

Yeah, fuck that guy in particular.

I'm thinking his next job will be to oversee the drug testing that is a requirement before the po peeps get their box o' guvernmint cheese.

His next job is governor of Kansas. Because that’s just how stupid that state is right now. 

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4 hours ago, Dr. Teeth said:

His next job is governor of Kansas. Because that’s just how stupid that state is right now. 

Sadly this is probably going to be true. Kansas has been stuck on full retard for a long time now. 

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