Kris Kobach files to prosecute three voter fraud cases in Kansas

[deminks]

http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article38915277.html

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has filed criminal charges against three people he says committed voter fraud in the 2010 election.

They are the first charges filed since the Legislature granted Kobach prosecutorial power earlier this year. Gov. Sam Brownback signed the bill making Kobach the only secretary of state in the nation to have such authority in June.

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During his push to be given prosecutorial authority, Kobach presented to the Legislature 18 alleged cases of double voting that he said occurred during the 2010 and 2012 elections.

Kobach’s critics say he exaggerates the threat of voter fraud. They contend that discretion over these cases is better left to local prosecutors.

Micah Kubic, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas, pointed out that local prosecutors did not find these cases worthy of prosecution and said that Kobach has been “particularly zealous about trying to find something to justify this new law that he got passed, so I’d be really concerned about the merits of the individual cases.”

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All that time, money, waste of resources, for 3 cases. Where are the thousands of immigrants committing voter fraud, Kris? Where is that special program that was gonna pull thousands of people off the voter rolls 'cause they voted in more than one state? Ya know the crowning blow, Kris? All 3 of your cases are registered GOPers! WTG.

[randys1]

1. Dont you know that for each case they prosecute this means there are ten thousand

they didnt catch?


When you stop people from voting, you end any reason to pretend there are laws, a country, anything.
I wouldnt blame those being disenfranchised if they responded TERRIBLY

[MuseRider]

2. I am so sick of these people.

I want to see them far far away from any positions of power. He created this ability for himself, there is nobody to tell him no and now he is going after people. Even if he wins this it is 3 people, only 3. It is funny that they are all GOP however but damn, this state is broke to the bone and now we are wasting more money on this and he will not stop.

[Downwinder]

3. Losing three votes is not going to put any

Rs out of office.

Pity.

[Warpy]

4. We had four whole cases here in NM. Three were Texans

and all four were Republicans.

Are we starting to see a pattern here?

[SheilaT]

5. About ten or so years ago, when the Republicans first started getting

all hot and bothered about fraudulent voting, the Kansas City Star newspaper did an investigation, and came up with about three or four people who had voted in both Kansas and Missouri. All of them said they thought they were entitled to vote in both states because they owned property or had businesses in both. All were Republicans.

Yep, there is a pattern here.