There is no discernible end to Republican efforts to suppress legitimate votes. And there is no end their efforts to hide it where ever they can.
Something similar happened in Sedgwick County in '14, as well. That race cost Paul Davis (D) his seat as Governor.
“Your honor, we felt no compulsion to count votes cast for Democratic candidates.”
Kansas’ largest county violated open records law
Kris Kobach, please pick up the red voter fraud emergency phone.
So now the next question: will they obey the law and release the names to inform people that their votes weren’t counted, or will they keep stonewalling.
Now we know why he was ordered to go for remedial lawyering classes. The short bus is waiting.
…a state law that requires the signature on an advanced ballot to exactly match the signature on file from when the person registered to vote.
Informally known as the “throw out ballots you don’t like” law. I mean, really, whose signature is exactly the same each time, much less over a period of years?
It’s hard to know who was worse for Kansas, Kobach or Brownback.
Every ballot rejected for a bad signature should have a criminal case opened for voter fraud. They won’t, however, because they are valid signatures.
But this was from the primary election. It looks like they felt no compulsion to count votes cast for Republicans who weren’t named Kobach, either. They threw out 898 ballots, and Kobach won the primary by just 343 votes.
Kobach’s pure scum by any measure.
The Kansas signature matching law is ridiculous and needs to be challenged like the other states, but Metzger broke even THAT law by not notifying voters their ballots were rejected and giving them an opportunity to respond. OTH, Colyer might have won the governors race had he beaten Kobach in the primary, so GOPers eating their own worked out well in this case.
Johnson County election commissioner Ronnie Metsker rejected Hammet’s request, prompting the American Civil Liberties Union to join Hammet in a lawsuit.
Metzger didn’t immediately return a phone call seeking comment on the ruling.
I think that I know why: They should have called Metsker for a comment, not Metzger.
Should we take that to the next level where every signature shown to be valid generates a criminal case for filing a false police report?
How do you stop this kind of vote suppression?
It involves the application of hot tar, feathers, the use of rails, and forced trips out of town. Preferably in the depths of a deep winter freeze. Vote suppressors usually do not appreciate the process, but it will work. Factually, just the threat of it will work. Wish them all a bon voyage.