“If it’s a close race, illegal votes could swing any close race,” Kobach told the progressive website. “There are close legislative races routinely in Kansas decided by fewer than 10 votes.”
He added: “If you have a close race, yeah absolutely, voter fraud could swing the margin.”
First quote: certainly true as an if-then proposition.
Second quote: may be true or false. Let’s see the evidence.
Third quote: also true as an if-then statement.
Unfortunately, “then” is not true unless “if” is true, and the evidence for “if” (election-result-flipping voter fraud) seems to be missing.
Voter fraud could swing the election. So could having your head way, way up your butt.
Wouldn’t it be ironic if KK’s political career came to an end through fraudulent votes in a Republican primary!
Especially the fairies his bogus election commission believed in. They did ALL KINDS of illegal voting and were so slippery they couldn’t even find them.
Maybe some Russian thumbs on the scale? Could those swing an election?
Dude’s consistent. Consistently wrong, but consistent.
Yeah it could in the smallest of possibilities, but its voter suppression that actually makes the difference.
That’s called leaving out some of the statement variables.
Kansas Kris Kobach. Doing crazy to perfection (at taxpayer expense)…
Let’s review each of the GOP’s reasons for curtailing immigration:
- Bringing crime:Mostly committed by “white folk”
- Taking away jobs: unless you’re a busboy, farm worker or other manual labor, then no
- Voting for Democrats: We have a winner!
I think this fucker needs electro-shock therapy - he seems to be stuck.
As my good friend Jesus says -
That’s unusual- we’ve got over three months to go before the midterms and Kris Kobach is already sending out trial balloons on the best excuse he should use for losing the election.
Yup, he’s an unrepentant dick alright!
I’d be inclined to ignore this moron, but this is a Republican primary and Republicans do have a much more intimate history in recent decades with voter fraud. So maybe his statement is an admission of conspiracy rather than a cautionary assertion…
Wrong headline and lede.
Headline: Kobach admits Republicans vote Illegally
Lede: Republican Kris Kobach today suggested that illegal voting could be the decisive factor in his Republican primary today. The implication that Republicans vote illegally was unmistakable.
It appears as if Kobach is accusing Republican voters of casting illegal ballots. Either that, or he is claiming that any vote for his opponent is illegal. Or, since he has the lead and may just win, his margin of victory was due to illegal votes.
Well I’m no Kobach fan but I do love language so let me take a swat at it. Kobcah was not making a definitive statement so his words should not be parsed as if he was. He was making a reasonable speculation. Granted he was contradicting his previous position that voter fraud is widespread in saying that it could tilt a “close election”. But what he said was reasonable and not a statement dependent on logic. He does not claim his election was tainted by fraud though. Just that fraud could, under the limited circumstances he stated, flip an election from the will of those qualified to vote to those not qualified. If and than analysis is used when two statements of fact mutually exclude each other on an if and than basis. Kobach didn’t do that.
And yet the taxpayers of Maricopa County elected Sheriff Joe A**hole how many times?
I swear delusional is too mild of word for Kobach. He’s a like a tweeker : “Tweekers are known for their extreme paranoia, flagrant dishonesty, and lack of non-tweeker friends. A tweeker will steal your stuff and then help you look for it.”