If you know anything about Kobach, you probably just know that he cries voter fraud in order to pass voter registration laws that do more to disenfranchise voters than they do to stop fraud. I think as SOS he uncovered five actual cases of fraud, and they were all republicans, and they were all older people who were confused on where they were supposed to vote.
The one thing that pisses me off the most is people trying to keep legal voters from voting. It's perhaps the most unamerican thing a person can do, and when you throw in the fact that most voter repression affects non-whites, then that makes you a racist piece of shit.
And that's what Kobach is. Before becoming SOS, Kobach helped Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce with that state's SB 1070 bill, the papers please law, which cost the state billions in taxes and tourism dollars as businesses moved out or decided to not move in, large groups decided not to hold conventions there, and Hispanic-Americans decided to move elsewhere. Pearce is well-known for being friends with various white supremacists, which as far as I'm concerned means so is Kobach.
Kobach also convinced various small towns to pass unconstitutional anti-immigrant legislation, which were of course taken to court, and he convinced the cities to hire him to represent them. He always lost, but he always made money.
Then of course he was tasked by Trump to be part of a group that was going to show that the 3 million more votes that Hillary got were from illegal immigrants or otherwise fraudulent. He quit the group early, probably because they weren't able to make the case no matter what trickery they employed. The finished report found nothing.
And he went to trial to defend his Kansas voting act that he was the force behind as SOS that kept over 17,000 Kansans from voting where he got humiliated by the judge who assigned him to take 6 hours of remedial law classes.
Samantha Bee did it best.
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