Kris Kobach and His 5,313 Fraudulent Voters - NYT Editorial Board

[DonViejo]

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD SEPT. 11, 2017

The voter-fraud crusaders who run President Trump’s electoral-integrity commission have found their holy grail: evidence that large-scale illegal voting swung a pivotal Senate election in 2016.

In his latest column for Breitbart News, Kris Kobach, the commission’s vice chairman, called it “highly likely” that the election of Maggie Hassan, New Hampshire’s Democratic candidate for the Senate, was “stolen through voter fraud.” He said it was “possible” that Hillary Clinton’s narrow victory in the state was the result of illegal voting, too.

Mr. Kobach’s evidence for these explosive claims? “Proof,” he says, that 5,313 people who voted in New Hampshire in 2016 do not actually reside in the state. The theory, which has been hawked by Mr. Trump himself, is that these voters sneaked over the border — or were even bussed in! — from neighboring Democratic strongholds like Massachusetts or Vermont, in a huge conspiracy to swing the election.

That scheme had national implications, Mr. Kobach wrote — the Senate failed to repeal Obamacare by one vote. And he wonders why serious people don’t take him seriously.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/opinion/kris-kobach-fraudulent-voters.html

[Sneederbunk]

1. So Ayotte would have lost by even more?

[Historic NY]

2. Kris is so f--king ethical that he has to write his own Brietbarf ...

propaganda to support his conclusions for the appointed committee he is on!

[Not Ruth]

3. If he finds nothing, voter fraud as a Trump talking point goes bye bye

[dalton99a]

4. Kick

[FakeNoose]

5. If there was any cheating - it was done by the GOP & the Russians

...Let's see what Kobach has to say about that.

[Gothmog]

6. Kobach is good at suppressing the vote

[TygrBright]

7. And the kicker:

The truth is that Mr. Kobach and his band of vote suppressors belittle themselves, and threaten voting rights nationwide, with their dishonesty.

Preach it, gray lady!

amusedly,
Bright

[procon]

8. "...wildly irresponsible accusations based on an inaccurate reading of the data and the law."

"Vice President Mike Pence, the commission’s chairman, said in July that the commission had “no preconceived notions or preordained results.” That was never credible. It’s laughable now, as Mr. Kobach spouts his latest, wildly irresponsible accusations based on an inaccurate reading of the data and the law.

Rather than admit his obvious biases, Mr. Kobach carps that “the mainstream media has ignored the problem of voter fraud and belittled those of us who are trying to do something about it.” The truth is that Mr. Kobach and his band of vote suppressors belittle themselves, and threaten voting rights nationwide, with their dishonesty."

Republicans can't get elected by honesty at the poling place, and even when they do manage to get into office, they can't govern, so what's the point?