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Dont be fooled by news of Trump's Executive Order dissolving the so-called Commission on Election Integrity. Trump is not ending the Kris Kobach scheme to attack, hes moving it into Homeland Security as per Kobachs original plan.
Kobach gloats that Homeland Security is exempt from Freedom of Information Act demands and public hearings that was part of his original plan given to Trump.
Kobach claims Homeland Security can REQUIRE states to turn over voter records and can secretly gather lists of "double" or "alien" voters this is Kobachs "Crosscheck" on steroids.
The one Democrat on Kobachs committee, Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, warns: "Homeland Security operates very much in the dark
and I think people should be, frankly, frightened by that."
Kobach will be advising Homeland Security and thats MORE dangerous than operating through an open committee.
This is not a win for progressives it's a brilliant chess move by KKK (Kris Kobach of Kansas).
http://www.gregpalast.com/trump-not-ending-kobachs-racist-voter-purging-scheme-hes-putting-steroids-moving-homeland-security/
LenaBaby61
(6,977 posts)Everything in THIS crooked, tReasonous administration is done in the DARK ....
Which is terrifying.
Wanting to vote the bums out in the 2018 mid-terms is one thing. And I do feel that there is a blue wave IF all of our votes count. However, actually voting them OUT by casting your vote is a totally different thing in these tRumpian times, especially if your vote is gerrymandered, sent MISSING, cross-checked off, or voter ID'd off of voter rolls which ONLY hurt Dems.
And, who knows what role the ruskies will have in our mid-terms which are only a few months away? Fatso isn't going to sanction or punishing them. Hell, we still don't fully know NOW what roll they played in our 2016 GE. We might not find that all out until years from now. Meanwhile, tRump and the GOP--with putin's help of course, is burning this country down to the damn ground. And of course, most in the so-called liberal media which doesn't exists continues to sit by and normalize what's taking place in our country.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)dalton99a
(81,570 posts)FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)This would have happened anyway.
Your self-suggested characterization of Kobachs brilliance is (shall we say), less than accurate, verging on plum loco.