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View Full Version : Voter Fraud Expert Kobach emerges from election with job — and ambition – intact (wins 59-41)




RandallFan
11-08-2014, 06:24 PM
Coming into Tuesday’s election, many political watchers thought Kris Kobach had gone (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/17/us/politics/voter-id-firebrand-kris-kobach-takes-a-low-profile-kansas-office-out-of-the-shadows.html?_r=0) too far (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/kris-kobach-kansas-jean-schodorf). In his first term as Kansas secretary of state, the nationally influential Republican had put his anti-immigration crusade into action, including implementing stringent voter ID laws and a “proof of citizenship” requirement so strict that it disqualified 21,000 federally eligible voters from participating in state races. His opponent compared (http://cjonline.com/news/2014-10-22/kobach-schodorf-trade-barbs-topeka-debate) Kobach’s tactics to voter suppression during Jim Crow, and called on voters to repudiate him at the polls.

They did not. Kobach cruised to a 19-point re-election victory, carrying all but the state’s two most liberal counties and garnering more votes than even his victorious Republican incumbent colleagues Gov. Sam Brownback and Sen. Pat Roberts. “I think my race was a referendum,” a satisfied Kobach told reporters (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQZoxQ7Y_Q0) on election night. “There will be some just voting on a partisan basis and some voting because they like what I’ve done on illegal immigration in my spare time, but I think most people see this as a race about photo ID and proof of citizenship.”



http://america.aljazeera.com/blogs/scrutineer/2014/11/6/kobach-kansas-victoriousambitious.html


In fact, in an election-eve poll (http://www.latinodecisions.com/files/6414/1520/9800/Election_Eve_2014_-_NATIONAL_TOPLINES.pdf), nearly a third of Kansas Latino voters said they were planning to support Kobach — though the vast majority, 65 percent, said they would oppose him.