Go away, you irrelevant asshole.
"Kobach, who is serving as vice chair of the committee, suggested that the commission will use federal data on green card holders to compare to states’ voter rolls in order to “see how many people are known aliens residing in the United States and also on the voter rolls.”
That way they can PURGE from the voting roles ANYONE with a Latino Surname: “Look here Clem! There is a guy named Gonzalez registered MORE THAN ONCE in Texas!!!”
If they tried that with the names" Smith, Jones, and Johnson most white people would not be able to vote either.
Not really sure why anyone should believe anything this administration says about anything.
All cliches that include a fox guarding a henhouse apply to Kobach.
Kobachs master plan has some serious flaws all connected to that pesky constitution thingy. First all voter rolls are controlled by the states. No state has to give this commission a damn thing and I am sure many will tell him to go pound sand. He may have to get the state voter rolls from the Russians to do this. Also only states can purge their voter rolls and only states can implement any recommendations this committee comes up with. This federal commission is pointless as it has no constitutional power to do anything about voting. States are the sole authority over the laws regarding voting.
There are, alas, plenty of red states champing at the bit to enact more vote-suppression rules. (And also, the feds do have some authority – that’s why, for example, Kobach got in trouble for sending out forms requiring proof of citizenship, because federal law doesn’t require it.)
Would that be Kris Karl Kobach?
I am sure some red states would but at this point in time it is difficult to feel sorry for people in red states. They have the power to eliminate the problem at the ballot box. States like mine would fight tooth and nail anything the feds tried to do regarding voting laws and the constitution would back them up.
Didn’t FL already try this? Wasn’t it during Scott’s first term? Did it not end well for the state of FL?
It ended up just fine for the state of florida. The courts told them to stop doing that, but no one went to jail or paid a fine or anything. Florida also did something much like it in 2000, with similarly pleasant results for elected officials there.
Not sure about under this Gov. but I learned about voter caging lists when Jeb! was governor of Florida. If I recall that didn’t go so well (disenfranchised many voters) - I could be wrong but that may have been what led to trying to stack the US Attorney’s under Gonzales.
NYT (2004) Florida List for Purge of Voters Proves Flawed
It doesn’t surprise me if Scott repeated the mistake.
ProPublica (2015) Why the Feds are Suing Florida
I was finding articles about the two times, before I finished reading the comments. Almost like a virtual jinx.
Ok I thought it was Jeb! but I went with Scott. I do remember there was a decorated veteran purged and the the hoohaw that came with the revelation that the vet’s last name was Hispanic.
Kris Kobach — Integrity ---- ERROR: DOES NOT COMPUTE!
Kobach should be the target of any commission, not conducting it, for heaven’s sake. Will the Commission have any actual authority???
It’s all part of the legacy of Karl Rove.
Probably not. The whole exercise is one that is becoming disgustingly familiar. Trump tell some lie - then wants to use federal $$ to investigate/falsify reality to prove that he didn’t lie. It is a big ego game.
The Commission will probably give some honorary pay, and foot expenses, but do nothing real and be charged with only one task: Prove that the margin of votes by which Trump lost the popular vote was more narrow than faked “illegal immigrants voting.”
We now have a fed. Govt. being treated as if it has a single client. Trump.
If Trump wants to make sure only US citizens vote than automatically register every baby who is born in the US to vote when they turn 18 years old. Make it good for a lifetime no matter where they vote. They shouldn’t have to register to vote again in their lifetime. Also, when immigrants become citizens they should automatically be registered to vote and again it should be for their lifetime. For local elections all those registered voters would have to do is show what country and district they live in.
Well, now we are going to be able to run that database against one or two states.
So which one or two states is Kobach currently working with to cook the books on their voter rolls so they match his pre-determined outcome?
ETA: I’m guessing they’ll be in swing states as well.