Kobach Using Spreadsheet Showing Five Non-Citizen Voters

[demmiblue]

Source: Talking Points Memo

A spreadsheet created by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s office became a focal point in the trial over Kansas’ voter registration proof-of-citizenship requirement. The spreadsheet shows that only five alleged non-citizens have voted in Sedgwick County, the second most populous Kansas county, over the last two decades.

Those alleged non-citizen voters cast collectively about 10-12 votes, the earliest in 2004, testimony revealed. According to the challengers in the case, that’s out of 1.3 million votes cast in the relevant time period in the county. Sedgwick County accounts for a little over one sixth of Kansas’ population.

Yet Kobach is using those examples to defend his proof-of-citizenship requirement, which was implemented in 2013. An appeals court has said Kobach must prove that non-citizen voting is a “substantial” problem in Kansas. So the spreadsheet — along with testimony expected in the days to come from “experts” in voter fraud — is key to Kobach’s argument.

The ACLU, which is representing some of the challengers, sought to show that the list was inflated.

Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/kobach-spreadsheet-voter-non-citizens-spreadsheet

[world wide wally]

1. Most like likely all Russians

[weissmam]

2. he is kidding right

10-12 out of 1.3 million , they will laugh him out of court , does anyone know what statistically that means , its not just almost insignificant its insignificant

[ProfessorGAC]

7. All He Has To Prove. . .

. . .is that any of those elections (remember, this is since 2004, so 6 elections) would have been swung with about 2 votes in the entire county.

Somehow i don't think he's going to be forthcoming about that.

[lagomorph777]

13. If it costs 100,000 legitimate voters to prevent 1 fraudulent voter,

is that remotely justifiable on any planet?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. As if one part in a million of blueberry jam in strawberry jam makes it not strawberry jam. . . nt

[Fred Sanders]

4. Kobach and his team of courtroom clowns have been making folks and the judge laugh at

their complete and collective ignorance of courtroom procedure and rules of evidence as they line up their trainwreck of unqualified witnesses and Fox News regulars.

Then there was this yesterday, probably left by the judge:

"After lunch on Wednesday, a printed stack of papers labeled “Federal Rules of Evidence” sat on Kobach’s table."

[Gothmog]

5. This trial is better than any soap opera

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[ThoughtCriminal]

6. For every illegal vote they prevent they disenfranchise tens of thousands

of eligible voters. And that is the real goal.

[lagomorph777]

14. There has to be some kind of rational balance argument.

[Chipper Chat]

8. Crisis

for sure.

[Angry Dragon]

9. now they want him to come up with facts..........silly people

[IronLionZion]

10. They would rather block thousands of legitimate voters

than allow even one illegal vote. One is too many for these assholes who benefit when fewer voters vote.

[StevieM]

11. If we become a fascist dictatorship some day, my money is on this guy to be our dictator. (eom)

[maxsolomon]

12. One guy tried to use a shoe bomb

now we all take off our shoes every time we fly. apparently, the odds and the facts are irrelevant.

[lagomorph777]

15. At least in the shoe bomber case, big possible consequences might justify extreme response.

i.e. one slip-up could cost hundreds of lives.

No such argument can be made for letting one fraudulent vote through. It's just utterly irrational.

[Gothmog]

16. This comment from the Kansas AG office makes me smile

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[Gothmog]

17. This trial is my new soap opera

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