Kansas' Kris Kobach Exceeded His Election Authority, Rules Judge

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Source: Tribune News Services

A Topeka judge has denied a move by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to quash a lawsuit challenging the state's two-tier voter registration system and said Kobach has exceeded his authority with the way he runs elections.

Micah Kubic, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Kansas and Missouri, called the ruling a "great day for voting rights and a great day for Kansas."

The ACLU filed the lawsuit on behalf of voters who have been frozen out of state and local elections because they registered to vote using federal registration forms and didn't provide proof-of-citizenship documents required by Kansas law.

Kubic said now that Kobach's motion for summary judgment has failed, the ACLU will file a motion seeking summary judgment in its favor. If the judge rejects that as well, the case will go to trial at a yet-to-be-scheduled date, Kubic said.

Read more: http://www.governing.com/topics/politics/tns-kansas-kris-kobach-judge.html

[sketchy]

1. Good news!

[Dont call me Shirley]

2. Good! KObaCH is a menace to the voting public.

[KansDem]

3. Good! Now release the voter logs!

C'mon, Topeka! You can do it!!

[90-percent]

4. Just in case we aren't all on the same page

Are these two cases inter-related?



http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141190282

-90%% Jimmy

[mountain grammy]

6. I was wondering the same thing.

Teabaggers have corrupted Kansas to the core.

[66 dmhlt]

8. They appear to be distinctly UNrelated - look like separate issues

[Darb]

10. Only in the sense that Republicans cheat.

Otherwise, one is their deliberate voter registration roadblocks, the other is outright vote rigging.

[blackspade]

5. K&R!

[Gothmog]

7. Kobach is good at suppressing the vote

I am glad that the judge blocked this purge attempt

[turbinetree]

9. Hey,------ Kobach and Brownback and just for good measure maybe the Koch's .........................

now the citizens of the state will now see what you and your right wing cronies have been doing to the vote with the electioneering that has been going on for probably a long long time