12 Sep 2017 9:48 pm
Kris Kobach watches his voter fraud lie get fact-checked. It didn’t go well.
Several Democratic voting experts including New Hampshire’s secretary of state on Tuesday repudiated White House voting commission co-chair Kris Kobach’s claim that thousands of out-of-state voters in New Hampshire likely tipped the Senate race to Democrats.
Kobach acknowledged he should have hedged his wording, but did not admit he was wrong.
In a Breitbart column last week, Kobach claimed that he had definitive proof that more than 5,000 out-of-state voters cast fraudulent ballots in 2016, tipping the Senate and potentially presidential race to Democrats.
During the second meeting of his voting commission in New Hampshire Tuesday, Kobach called his evidence “anecdotal” and said he’s not sure he used the right word when he wrote that it “appears” there was fraud.
After partially walking back his column without admitting his lie, Kobach was then rebutted by two Democratic secretaries of state. New Hampshire’s Bill Gardner (D) looked to Kobach, sitting next to him, and spoke about the integrity of elections in his state.
“The result as we have recorded it is real and valid,” Gardner said to applause from a few in the audience.
“I hope we can all learn from this,” he added.
Then Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap (D), also a commissioner, explained how domicile laws work for voting.
Despite what Kobach claimed in his column, college students and other temporary residents with out-of-state ID’s can cast ballots in elections because their domicile, where they spend a majority of nights, is in the state.
“When it comes to voting, where’s your pillow?” he explained.
Dunlap continued to fact-check Kobach, saying that accusing someone with an out-of-state ID of committing voter fraud is like accusing someone who has cash of robbing a bank.