Kansas’ Kris Kobach: We Need Voter ID Because Dead People Vote
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That curious noise is the sound of the wacko birds in full chorus, as yet another Kansas Krazy, Kris Kobach, speaks his mind, and this time it’s about dead people voting, again!
Right Wing Watch:
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach – the mastermind behind anti-immigrant and voter suppression legislation throughout the country – joined radio host Joyce Kaufman yesterday at an event hosted by the anti-immigrant group FAIR, where he currently holds a top legal position.
Kobach has been on a media blitz recently defending Kansas’ strict voter ID law, which requires people registering to vote to present a birth certificate or other proof of citizenship, a requirement that has left tens of thousands of Kansans with incomplete registrations .
Kaufman, who is based in Florida, told Kobach, “I can’t imagine how many widows are voting for their dead husbands.”
“Yeah, it happens all the time,” Kobach replied, going on to explain that people who die or move out of state often stay on a state’s voter rolls.
Kobach’s conflation of out-of-date voter rolls with fraudulent voting is common among advocates of voter suppression laws. While fraudulent voting is extraordinarily rare – including in Kansas – Kobach has used the threat of such fraud to push faulty voter roll purges in states across the country.
Yes, I’m imagining little old ladies in Florida sneaking to the polls to cast a vote in their dead husband’s name, aren’t you? And as RWW says, names on voter rolls don’t mean anything unless someone actually shows up and tries to vote with them, which happens almost never.
Kobach is on a publicity tour after the ACLU lawsuit against him was returned to a lower court for consideration. The subject of the lawsuit was, of course, voting rights. As much as Kobach wants to downplay the impact of Voter ID on people, it really does matter:
The Kansas proof-of-citizenship law took effect last year. Kobach argues that it combats fraud by preventing noncitizens from voting. Relatively few cases of potential voter fraud have been reported over the last decade, and critics argue that the law suppresses turnout. As of Tuesday, about 16,100 Kansas residents’ registrations were on hold because they hadn’t yet provided citizenship papers.
That Krazy Kansas sound: Cuckoo….cuckoo….cuckoo….
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Just the other day, I was telling my dead parents about the primary coming up here in CA and were they still registered.
What did they say? Were they still registered? No doubt they are voting democrat 🙂 My late father wasn’t sure if he was registered but he swore he would NEVER vote republican. He’s a good dad.
OMD Mike. I heard words from my mother’s lips that sailors don’t even know. It was horrifying, especially since she was all waterlogged from being in a lake somewhere I can’t mention, because it’s not legal :)I don’t want you as an accessory. In order to figure out what dad was saying I had to consult a Thai dictionary because mom and I scattered his ashes at his Peace Corps place in Thailand. I’ll get back to you with his, after I do the translating. I do know none of them would vote republican even if it depended on my life, that is how much they disliked GoOpers. Reagan was a cussword in our house.
Speaking of sailors my dad were one, for about 23 years as a matter of fact. We travelled all over the place and I didn’t think I loved it so much when we were doing it, but looking back on it I LOVED IT. My dad spent a lot of time at sea as well, being a sailor and all, and I remember when he would leave….lots of tears from my mom, my sister and me. I miss the old sailor and his cussing which my mom was always scolding him for…
The rents weren’t big on swearing much. My dad was the one with the foul mouth but he would watch it when lil Hitler was around. Mom would say it was the sign of an uneducated mind that used cuss words. Dad would counter with words he made up and say his educated mind just made new ones up. I have done sailing as far as the bay here and behind a boat on water skis but that’s about it. I get a little motion sicky if I have to be on one for any great length of time. I’ll never be a sailor or a submarine person at all. I’m sure the US military is breathing a sigh of relief over that news 🙂