KS attempt at voter suppression loses again (for now)
Characteristics of wingnuts are well known and documented: 1) A narrow world view; 2) Looking outward for enemies to blame rather than inward for root causes of problems.
Their mania for voter SUPPRESSION falls in the second. That is, instead of looking for ways to ATTRACT adherents to their shrinking side, they attempt to decimate who can vote. But in their situation, they are in a BIND because their world view itself is restrictive, constrictive, self-limiting. And in their voter suppression they are wasting their time and energy because they are again on the wrong side of history, besides that they have nothing to worry about because the vast majority of their natural enemies DON’T VOTE, voter APATHY. As noted, out of BILLIONS of votes FRAUD has only accounted for 31 indictments. Relax, wingnuts, people DON’T VOTE!
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kansas-voter-registration_us_569ea25ae4b0cd99679bb3c5?utm_hp_ref=politics
[font size=5]Kansas Secretary Of State Loses Battle For Stricter Voter Registration -- Again[/font]
A district state judge declared Friday that Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has overstepped his legal authority by implementing a dual voter registration system.
The federal voter registration form only requires a sworn statement, under penalty of perjury, that citizens who are registering are U.S. citizens. Kobach introduced a requirement that residents of Kansas seeking to vote must produce documentation of citizenship, like a passport or birth certificate. The requirement took effect in 2013. ....
After introducing the more stringent procedure for registration, Kobach lost his suit to compel the federal election officials to change the federal forms to require citizenship documentation. The Supreme Court ruled against him in 2013, saying that states cannot impose a proof-of-citizenship documentation requirement on federal forms.
Kobach then attempted to circumvent the Supreme Court's ruling by arguing that any Kansan who registered using the federal form could only vote in federal elections. To exploit the court's ruling, he created a two-tier voting system where voters who registered using the federal forms could vote for offices like the presidency and U.S. Congress seats, but were barred from voting for local and state offices. If the voter were to cast a local vote on the federal ballot, those votes would go uncounted.
Kobach has justified his state's proof-of-citizenship requirement by arguing that it protects against fraud, even though cases of in-person impersonation fraud, which such a requirement is meant to guard against, are exceedingly rare(“31 credible incidents out of one billion ballots cast”). ....
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smiley evening here at my house.
It will never end until this guy is out of office and even then he will be sticking his nose in every state to try this.
Still, we won this one. 
