The list of legal troubles Kansas faces in implementing its voter proof-of-citizenship requirement has grown longer. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a new lawsuit challenging the policy, as well as the state’s plans to purge 30,000 people from the state’s voter rolls because they did not submit a proof of citizenship in the 90-day period mandated by the state.
The lawsuit, Fish v. Kobach, was filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court in Kansas City. It is being brought by Kansas residents who say they have been disenfranchised by the requirement. The complaint alleges the requirement that Kansans show proof of citizenship when they register to vote at a driver’s license office violates the National Voter Registration Act, also known as the “Motor Voter” law. It also says the move to block the voters who already registered for not showing a proof of citizenship violates a section of the NVRA that outlines when a voter can be removed from a state’s voter registration roll.
Kansas’ Secretary of State Kris Kobach is listed as a defendant in the suit, as is Nick Jordan, the secretary of revenue for the state.
It comes days after a separate suit was filed by other voting rights groups challenging the surprise decision of a federal official to approve adding the proof-of-citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form in Kansas, and in Georgia and Alabama.
Read the ACLU complaint below:
Go get 'im!
Kobaxh belongs in a padded forced retirement asylum. He represents the closet things we have to display as PROOF that humas CAN be crimes against nature.
HE’S IT.
This case should get to the Supreme Court about the same time that Obama’s new nominee takes the 9th seat, which makes me optimistic.
I am still in wonder at the lack of media coverage here.
We stand at the very crucible of democracy, anyone who considers that exaggerated hasn’t been paying attention.
The fundamental tenet of the right to a secure and accurate vote-count is at stake here and like the fundamental right to vote in the first place, it seems quite clear Kobach’s intending to include vote-count cheating along with voter suppression in his arsenal of available tools to win election DESPITE democracy.
Every Republican in any position who participates in enabling this cover-up only proves their confused ideology matters more to them than democracy itself. They only prove are more than willing to destroy democracy if their conservative delusions and fickle-morality demands aren’t humored.
You can certainly call yourself a “good republican” if you join the liars whp have enabled Kobach to ignore the laws of democracy, but don’t EVER call yourself a good patriot in earshot of me, or I will challenge you publicly to prove it and you simply can’t.
If you support Kobach’s right to hide the truth, you are no patriot of any sort.
And you are only fooling yourself if you claim it.
This really is a test of democracy itself, even if they do not admit it.
if this gets to the Supreme Court, something is fundamentally wrong with our system, this should end up in criminal court, not the Supreme Court. This is egregious to the maximum extent, when it sound like my hair’s on fire you can bet on it.