REVEALED: Kobach Proposal Captured In Trump Photo Finally Becomes Public

[DonViejo]

By TIERNEY SNEED Published OCTOBER 6, 2017 9:56 AM

As voting rights advocates had long suspected, a document Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach was photographed holding while meeting then President-elect Donald Trump included a proposal to weaken the National Voter Registration Act, which has been an obstacle in Kobach’s quest to implement a proof-of-citizenship requirement for registering to vote.

The document became public Thursday as part of an ACLU lawsuit against Kobach challenging the proof-of-citizenship requirement he’s tried to implement in Kansas. Kobach was photographed holding the document — a broader plan for the Department of Homeland Security — in November, but only the first half of the proposal could be made out.



“Draft Amendments to National Voter Registration Act to promote proof-of-citizenship requirements,” the unsealed document says, under a section titled “Stop Aliens From Voting.” The rest of the document remains largely redacted.



The National Voter Registration Act — also known as the Motor Voter Law — is a 1993 law that sought to streamline the registration process at government agencies, including at the DMV. It stipulates that Americans seeking driver’s licenses can use the same documents and process to also register to vote, with state officials mandated only to require “the minimum amount” of additional information to prevent duplicate and ineligible registrations.

A separate document made public in the ACLU litigation goes into more detail about Kobach’s ideas for the NVRA. The proposal, reportedly a memo he sent to Kansas’ head of elections, appears to give states wide discretion over the documents they can require of voters to register.



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[Botany]

1. It was a coup and we had treason

Does anybody still think Trump was legally elected?

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2. K&R...

[Gothmog]

3. Kobach is good at suppressing the vote

[jodymarie aimee]

4. thank you so much Don

I will never understand why posts like this don't get attention, when the spit spat Hillary Bernie sends them to outerspace. THIS IS IMPORTANT FOLKS.

[Gothmog]

5. Kris Kobach Proposed Weakening Key Federal Voting Protections In Trump Meeting

The ACLU sued and forced Kobach to turn over this document http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kris-kobach-nvra_us_598dcd41e4b08a247273eb29?section=us_politics

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) brought a memo proposing to weaken voter protections in a major federal voting law to a meeting with President Donald Trump last year.

Kobach presented Trump with the proposal to amend the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, which requires state motor vehicle and other public assistance agencies to offer registration opportunities. Last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit stepped in to block Kansas’ proof-of-citizenship requirement ahead of the election, saying it violated the NVRA.

The proposal was at the bottom of a document Kobach was photographed holding during a meeting with Trump in November of last year. The document outlined Kobach’s plan for the first 365 days for the Department of Homeland Security in the Trump administration. In section 5 of the document, titled “Stop Aliens From Voting,” Kobach proposed: “Draft Amendments to National Voter Registration Act to promote proof-of-citizenship requirements.”