Kobach’s Office Puts Out Spanish Voter Guide With Wrong Registration Deadline

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach makes his victory speech at a Republican watch party Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014, in Topeka, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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The Spanish-language voter guides from Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s office include two errors about registering to vote in the state, while the English guides do not include the same errors.

The Spanish-language guides said that voters could register up to 15 days before the election, while the English version included the correct deadline, 21 days before the election, as the Daily Kos flagged last week. And while the English guides told voters they could use their passport as a photo ID, the guides in Spanish did not include a passport in the list.

Kobach is notorious for his push to enact strict voter ID laws in the state, impose other voting restrictions, and pursue criminal prosecutions of alleged voting fraud. Kansas faces several challenges to its law requiring proof of citizenship for residents to register to vote.

Craig McCullah, the official in charge of publications for the Kansas secretary of state, claimed responsibility and said that the office would correct the errors, according to the Kansas City Star.

“It was an administrative error that I am diligently working to fix,” he said.

McCullah said that the online version of the guide has already been corrected and that they are working to print corrected guides as well.

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  1. I’m sure that was unintentional.

    (facepalm)

  2. So the guy who’s doing his best to prevent poor and minorities from voting by using the fiction of “voter fraud” and his minions NEVER MEANT to mislead Spanish-Speaking voters by giving the wrong deadline and not including all acceptable documents. I have some shares of the GW Bridge I can sell you if you’re buying that.

  3. What a strange coincidence!

  4. “The Spanish-language guides said that voters could register up to 15 days before the election, while the English version included the correct deadline, 21 days before the election”

    Wow. Prosecute him. I’m not fucking joking. He was clearly, blatantly trying to goad all the “last minute” folks into a 6 day window during which their registration would be void. PROSECUTE HIM.

    “the guides in Spanish did not include a passport in the list.”

    Also trying to deliberately dupe them into believing they have no valid form of ID, when a passport is so obviously a very likely ID for a Spanish-speaking person to possess, especially those relying on the gov’t to produce a Spanish language guide? WTF!?!?!? This should be considered a fucking OUTRAGE and yet the Fourth Estate is basically letting them off the hook with “administrative error” as the excuse? “Administrative errors” don’t just happen to be so very very targeted. This is clearly another “can’t put the shit back in the dog” misinformation campaign. No doubt in my fucking mind.

    INVESTIGATE. AND. PROSECUTE. HIM.

    And FUCK YOU MSM…FUCK YOU DEEP.

  5. Kobach glibly responded, “Who cares…aren’t they all illegals anyway? Besides if they were able to vote they’d probably vote Dem.”

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