Kobach: I’ve Told The President How To ‘Go After’ Voter Fraud

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach announces that Democrat Chad Taylor would have to remain on the Nov. 4 ballot because he had failed to declare that he would be unable to service if elected, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2... Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach announces that Democrat Chad Taylor would have to remain on the Nov. 4 ballot because he had failed to declare that he would be unable to service if elected, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014 in Topeka, Kan. (AP Photo/The Topeka Capital Journal, Thad Allton) MORE LESS
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Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach said Monday that he has advised President Donald Trump on how to “go after” voter fraud.

White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller cited Kobach as an expert on voter fraud issues in an interview Sunday.

During an appearance on “Fox and Friends” Monday, Kobach said that he had not been in touch with Vice President Mike Pence about his potential commission on voter fraud, but that he had spoken to the President about it.

“I’ve actually spoken with the President himself about this problem, and we’ve talked about various ways you can go after this problem, you can find those people who are criminally voting illegally,” Kobach said. “And, by the way, many of the people in Kansas have been voting in multiple elections we have found. So yes, there is a way to go after it, and I think the federal government will do it.”

Trump claimed in late November that he would have won the popular vote “if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.” The President cited no evidence supporting the claim. Trump has reportedly brought up what he claims is massive illegal voting in several instances since the election.

Kobach in the interview referenced “115 cases of known non-citizens who either got on our voter rolls in Kansas or who attempted to get on our voter rolls.” And, based on a “statistical analysis,” he said, there could be “as many as 18,000 cases of aliens on our voter rolls or people who attempted to get on the voter rolls and are not citizens,” in Kansas.

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  1. Kobach’s Kristallnacht technique should do the job.

  2. And, based on a “statistical analysis,” he said, there could be “as many as 18,000 cases of aliens on our voter rolls or people who attempted to get on the voter rolls and are not citizens,” in Kansas.

  3. Block democrats from voting in blue states and voter fraud will be curbed.

  4. What does Google have to say about this?

    Kris Kobach is a big fraud on Kansas voter fraud

    That’s the very first link when searching for “Kansas voter fraud cases”

    And you gotta love this recent piece in Bloomberg View, summarizing Kobach’s results to date:

    “Kobach’s Wall Street Journal essay was hardly an anomaly. Running for office in 2010, he said ballots were being cast by Kansas voters who were actually dead. He even named one politically active corpse, Alfred K. Brewer. But Brewer vehemently denied the charge – at least the part about being dead.”

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