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Termin8tor » 30 Jun 2017 9:51 pm » wrote:So you're not going to admit your huge lie about "no evidence of voter fraud." I knew you wouldn't, psycho.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a longtime proponent of voter suppression efforts, argued before state lawmakers that his office needed special power to prosecute voter fraud, because he knew of 100 such cases in his state.

After being granted these powers, he has brought six such cases, of which only four have been successful.

The secretary has also testified about his review of 84 million votes cast in 22 states, which yielded 14 instances of fraud referred for prosecution, which amounts to a 0.00000017 percent fraud rate.

https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/ ... fraud-myth

When Kris Kobach, Kansas’ aggressive secretary of state, convinced the state legislature to give him prosecutorial power to pursue voter fraud, he said it was necessary to root out tens of thousands of undocumented aliens who were voting as well as tens of thousands more who he claimed were voting in two states.

Two years later, Kobach has produced exactly nine convictions.

Most of them were not illegal immigrants but rather older registered Republicans.

Who Kobach targeted, and the controversial homegrown computer program he used to find them, matter even more now that he has been selected by President Trump to lead a commission on voter fraud.

Kobach’s boss has claimed on numerous occasions, without evidence, that millions of illegal ballots cost him the popular vote.

Kobach, despite his sweeping pronouncements to Kansas politicians, hasn’t found anything resembling a fraud of that proportion.

“He promised he was going to deliver all these illegal alien voters in Kansas,” said John Carmichael, a Democratic state representative from Wichita, who has sparred with Kobach.

“But we've got nine people in two years—and most of them are law-abiding United States citizens, who just need better education.”

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/ ... ion-215164