Trump's Pick to Prove Voter Fraud
& Give Trump Credibility
(Sec. of State from Kansas Kris Kobach
- KKK as it were)
Great story from here that needs to be told and retold and
reinforced over and over because it’s a GOP bogus issue and one huge “Red
Herring.”
Kansas Secretary
of State and Breitbart columnist, Kris Kobach, who frequently pushes voter
fraud misinformation on FOX News, spectacularly failed in his effort to mount a
defense for his state’s voter registration law in a federal court trial in
March.
Federal
judge Julie Robinson both
struck down the Kansas law and ordered
Kobach to take remedial classes after repeatedly violating the judge’s orders, which
includes him trying to introduce evidence after Robinson had specifically
excluded it.
FOX, for their part and who has pushed the debunked
specter of widespread voter fraud for a decade, provided no coverage of the
trial as it progressed between March 6 and March 19 – while asking, I guess:
“Kris Kobach, who’s that?” At least my hunch.
Background: In
2013, KS began enforcing the Kobach-backed
“Secure and Fair Elections (SAFE)” law, which required
residents who did not have a driver’s license to show proof of citizenship with
documents such as a birth certificate or U.S. passport when registering to
vote.
In May 2016,
U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson temporarily blocked Kansas from enforcing
that law after the ACLU filed a lawsuit, arguing that the law violated the
federal National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), which requires
state voter registration forms to merely “contain an attestation that the
applicant meets” eligibility requirements, such as citizenship. According to
the ACLU, the law blocked tens
of thousands of voter registrations in KS.
Kobach, who also
writes columns for
Breitbart and who has appeared on FOX News numerous times via a search of Nexis
transcripts, which cover less than half of FOX shows, reveals nearly 60
appearances by Kobach. During a number of these appearances, he pushed
an anti-immigrant
agenda as he also discussed
the KS
voter registration law at least twice on FOX.
Additionally,
FOX has spent years pushing bunk
voter
fraud claims
and supporting
Republican
efforts to make
voting harder in
response to the fear they inspire. Considering that history, one might
expect the network to closely cover Kobach’s chance to prove the necessity of
stringent voter identification laws.
But that
hasn’t been the case. According to a search of closed-captioning transcripts on
Snap Stream and iQ media, FOX only mentioned the trial twice, in two short news
updates
for a grand total of 50 seconds – the trial stretched over six days.
My 2 Cents: More on this critical issue of “voter
suppression” and not fraud, consider this excellent source: The Brennan Center
for Justice at NYU.
Additionally I have post about this
for a very long time using that source – here for example are many links, but please note that
some of the links may not be valid right now for various reasons, nor up to
date, or maybe have expired or been deleted.
If so, sorry in advance, but the
NYC link is valid and a great site.
Thanks for stopping by.
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