Kansas Prosecutors Throw Cold Water On Kobach's Voter Fraud Claims

[deminks]

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the architect behind some of the nation's strictest voter ID requirements, is asking lawmakers to give him the power to press voter fraud charges because he says prosecutors do not pursue cases he refers.

The state's top federal prosecutor, however, says Kobach has not sent any cases his way. Some county prosecutors say cases that have been referred did not justify prosecution.

The conservative Republican publicly chastised Kansas-based U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom late last year, telling Topeka television station WIBW he had referred voter fraud cases to Grissom and that Grissom didn't "know what he's talking about" when he said voter fraud doesn't exist in Kansas.

But in a Nov. 6 letter sent from Grissom to Kobach and obtained by The Associated Press through an open records request, the prosecutor responded that his office received no such referrals from Kobach, and chided the secretary of state for his statements.

"Going forward, if your office determines there has been an act of voter fraud please forward the matter to me for investigation and prosecution," Grissom wrote. "Until then, so we can avoid misstatements of facts for the future, for the record, we have received no voter fraud cases from your office in over four and a half years. And, I can assure you, I do know what I'm talking about."

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Kobach, a lying GOPer POS? Who knew? /sarcasm off.

[randys1]

1. He and the others will never stop working to stop minorities from voting.

There is an organized infrastructure backed by billionaires intent on stopping many groups from voting.

If this happened elsewhere we would send troops to stop these motherphuckers

[Gothmog]

2. There is no in person voter impersonation

Voter id laws only stop one form of voter fraud and that form of voter fraud does not exist

[Fred Sanders]

3. Liar, liar, pants caught on fire! About time all the liar pants were set on fire.