Vice chair of Trump's voter fraud commission wants to change federal law to add new requirements...

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post



Vice chair of Trump’s voter fraud commission wants to change federal law to add new requirements for voting, email shows

The day after Donald Trump was elected president, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, now the vice-chair of Trump's commission on voter fraud, told Trump's transition team of a proposal to change federal law to allow stricter requirements on voter registration.

Kobach's team was "putting together information on legislation drafts for submission to Congress early in the administration," Kobach wrote to transition team member Gene Hamilton in an email. "I have some already started regarding amendments to the NVRA [National Voter Registration Act] to make clear that proof of citizenship requirements are permitted (based on my ongoing litigation with the ACLU over this)." The email was released on Friday as part of that ACLU lawsuit and was first published by the Huffington Post.

Amending the NVRA in such a manner "will lead to a dramatic reduction in access to voting," said Wendy Weiser, director of the democracy program at NYU's Brennan Center, in an interview. "Every time legal obstacles to restricting the vote have been lifted in recent years, we've seen substantial spikes in efforts to restrict the vote."

Amending the NVRA in such a manner "will lead to a dramatic reduction in access to voting," said Wendy Weiser, director of the democracy program at NYU's Brennan Center, in an interview. "Every time legal obstacles to restricting the vote have been lifted in recent years, we've seen substantial spikes in efforts to restrict the vote."

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[Judi Lynn]

1. Kris Kobach has been on his vicious hate campaign for years. He should take the off ramp.

This country doesn't need him, never did. He's a festering cyst of Republican supremacist hatred.




The face only a Klansman could love: hard-chargin', lipless Kobach.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. And now we see the real reason for this bullshit commission

It's sad when you have FOUR Amendments to the Constitution that strictly deal with the right to vote and you have despots still finding ways to attack voting. They need to go back to whatever countries their ancestors got off the boat from since they can't seem to get away from imposing foreign practices on this country's citizens.

[groundloop]

3. Repukes would be nowhere without vote suppression

The bastards are doing a piss poor job of hiding the fact that they strongly prefer that only "the right people" vote.

[Sunlei]

4. Everyone with a birth certificate or citizenship papers should not have to register to vote.

[dragonlady]

7. That may become one of the requirements for registering in Trump's world

Many people do not have and cannot get birth certificates for various reasons. They should be able to vote too.

[Solly Mack]

5. K&R

[msongs]

6. we are in the middle of a slow-motion coup and outrage fatigue is setting in nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Pence is co-chair of the voter suppression commission with Kobach. . . nt

[riversedge]

9. growl!!

[briv1016]

10. I said it before, the recommendations of this commission have already been written.

Expect them to be released end of this year. 50 state voter ID passed sometime mid next year. It's the core of the Republicans' '18 and '20 strategy.