Kobach Says People Who Are Canceling Voter Registration Might Not Be Citizens

Speaking to the House Elections Committee, Secretary of State Kris Kobach said he has filed new voter fraud charges in three counties – the second round of criminal complaints since he gained prosecutorial power la... Speaking to the House Elections Committee, Secretary of State Kris Kobach said he has filed new voter fraud charges in three counties – the second round of criminal complaints since he gained prosecutorial power last year, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016. Kobach also unveiled a proposal to require audits of election machines, after a mathematician has unsuccessfully attempted to privately review machine records. (Thad Allton/Topeka Capital-Journal via AP) MORE LESS
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After the state of Colorado announced it would comply with the White House’s bogus “election integrity” panel’s request to share voter data, hundreds of Denver-area residents cancelled their voter registration to keep their private information safe, according to a report from local KDVR News.

But the man leading the panel, Kansas Secretary of StateKris Kobach thinks it’s just a “political stunt.”

In an interview with Breitbart News Thursday, Kobach said he heard about the wave of residents unregistering, and called the move “interesting” and likened it to a “political stunt.”

“It could be a number of things. It could be, actually, people who are not qualified to vote, perhaps someone who is a felon and is disqualified that way or someone who is not a U.S. citizen saying, ‘I’m withdrawing my voter registration because I am not able to vote,’” he said. “It could be a political stunt – people who are trying to discredit the commission and withdrawing temporarily because they are politically active but planning to get back on the voter rolls before the election next November.”

Kobach is at the helm of a presidential advisory commission that’s been tasked with investigating voter fraud, which President Donald Trump claimed was an epidemic in the U.S. throughout his campaign, despite no evidence to suggest such an issue.

Last month, the commission asked all 50 states to share voter data with the commission, everything from addresses and political party affiliation to military status and the last four digits of social security numbers.

The majority of states either outright rejected the request or were only willing to share publicly available data. Since Colorado indicted it would comply with the request, more than 1,000 people in the Denver area have taken their names off registration rolls, according to KDVR.

On top of the widespread non-compliance and criticism, the commission also faces five different lawsuits from groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and the Lawyers Committee on Human Rights, which filed complaints because the commission isn’t following federal open meeting laws.

“Who knows what’s causing it, but the fact that just studying the issue of voter fraud has tapped such a raw nerve among these organizations like the ACLU tells you that they really, really don’t want a presidential commission finding out what there is to see,” he said.

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  1. Yeah, or maybe there are some who forgot to “unregister” when they moved and are now worried about being caught out.

    You know, like Steve Bannon ??!

    Or, perhaps when Grandma died, nobody checked to see if it was cancelled.

  2. That liar will say anything to throw millions of people off the voting rolls!

  3. Avatar for jcs jcs says:

    Telling speculation, sans facts. Scumbag.

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