Well, now that you mention it, I think that would be kinda cool. 
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I trust that some of the naïfs who think that a GOP presidency will just provide more fuel for “the revolution” that they hope for will take heed that disenfranchisement on massive scale is the GOP long game. When no one can vote, just how is that “revolution” supposed to happen? armed combat???
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This just happened.
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Well for folks that like numbers…they are screaming out the truth. When near 60 % of those affected come from 14 percent of the subject population Mr. Kobach has a p value problem.
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So if I understand the logic of the state here it is just fine to exclude 6% of those who register to vote from voting I order to prevent the less that half of 1% who may vote illegally.
With that logic we should imprison 6% of Kansas elected officeholder to properly punish the less than 1% who are corrupt.
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Actually, I had the same thought even as I wrote it.
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Voter registration is the next front in the GOP War on Voting.
Last month I attended a poll worker training in Maricopa County. I was querying an official there about a new law that prohibits dropping off early ballots other than one’s own (I was concerned that we were going to be asked to turn away people bringing a spouse’s early ballot to drop off). I was treated to a rather defensive spiel about the law that quickly segued into a semi-rant about how ridiculous it is to allow activists to do voter registrations (in our county - no idea if it works the same everywhere else - one needs to take a class in how to do them, then one can register voters) because of the theoretical risk that a registrar would selectively turn in registrations.
This is nonsense because everybody who is registered is given a receipt. If a registrar is up to shenanigans, it would become evident pretty quickly once people started complaining they never got their voter ID card (which, of course, is not enough in and of itself to vote, but I digress).
The next front in voter suppression is to create a “crisis” of voter registration fraud and then make it difficult for people to get registered to vote.
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Especially the slaying part!
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Kansas has to make cuts to balance the budget. One idea that the Koch’s may like, Kansas may sell a $500,000,000 tobacco settlement payable over several years, for one payment of $150,000,000 for this year, Koch’s could buy that and make a killing with that rate of return. Off course, this could be why they are doing it, to pay the Koch’s for their support. Isn’t this like Putin in Russia, his friends get the money from government selling assets. By the way, this money is to support Kansas education. That is a big hit for Kansas schools. Maybe that is why they want to stop people from voting, they know that the budget of Kansas government is broken, and if “they” can stop people from voting, they can still give their friends the money that should go to the services and education for Kansas citizens and blame high taxes and bloated state spending for the problem.
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Couldn’t we just plow Kansas under and replant?
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Seems only fair [the two-tiered voter registration scheme]. Only aliens from Uranus ought to be allowed to vote for the creepy Republicans that have turned that state into the second Mississippi
and the basket case (excluding the ever-crazier Oklahoma) of the bread basket of the U.S…
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— Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach contends that since the provisions went into effect Jan. 1, 2013, a total of 244,699 people completed their registrations, accounting for about 94 percent of all applicants.
Aaaaaannnnnd, there’s the money shot! Now how many elections hinge on less than a 6% margin? I think Mr. Kobach is going to be very well rewarded on the national level by the GOP. The next Kansas Governor anyone?
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Federalize Federal Elections:
Here is what I mean, The congress should (once it is controlled by decent people) take over control of Voter registration and the voting process EVERYWHETRE. The everywhere will get rid of the objections to the Voting Rights Act. Controlling the process would set standard hours and rules for early voting and minimal number of machines per eligible voter. This would stop Arizona from closing 70% of polling site and end the practice in Indiana of closing polls at 5pm on election night. Go ahead and put some sort of an ID REQUIREMENT in place, and then fund the 7.2 billion dollars it would take to go door to door registering everyone eligible and giving them ID. Like the census workers.
And then pay the post offices to be semi permanent polling sites for all early voting.
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So I checked my state, MO’s and KS’s requirements for getting your first DL in each state. The number one document to present is one’s birth certificate and the second is a passport. Isn’t a birth certificate proof of citizenship? What am I missing here that if a young person registers at the DMV then they have shown proof of citizenship?
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Someone ought to try and invoke the penalty provision of the Fourteenth Amendment (Section 2), and see what the yahoo Republicans from Kansas say then…
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This is how Trump would win in the 2016 General (although the Snark Brigade is perfectly certain that Voter Suppression could never be of pivotal value in an American election).
Any person living in the Dominican Republic in 1952** would probably have to be hospitalized for laughing too hard if they had been told that “voter turnout” would stop reprehensible people from assuming political office.
** By that time, Rafael Trujillo had made a mockery of the word “vote”
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if one thing that republicons know how to do well is FUBAR something up …and their at the top ,of their clusterphuckin game in kansass
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Washington needs to be able to send in the National Guard to protect voting rights … or, better, a National Administrative Guard to take over Kobach’s office and fairly administer elections.
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Where is the friggin’ Justice Department? Why even have one?
I live in Mo, and when I got my DL after the law, they looked up my BC in the state records so I did not have to do anything. Also, when I had other benefits from MO that required proof of citizenship they did not ask for it, they have the BC on file, so they do not have any problem. I am just saying that Missouri has procedures that they will use their own records as proof of citizenship for the ID requirements for voting. I can see if people don’t have a Missouri BC may have a problem. Is Kansas doing the same thing? Are the 6% of the voters born out off state that do not have BC recorded in Kansas state records.
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