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Stroke of Luck

by Josh Marshall
09.04.14 | 4:16 pm

I’m still waiting to hear whether the law is on his side. But hard not to notice that the nation’s top voter suppression advocate, Kris Kobach, is the guy who just got to decide that the dropped out Democrat’s name must stay on the ballot in Kansas.

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