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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKobach is prosecuting this confused senior with four counts of felony voter fraud
https://thinkprogress.org/kobach-fraud-charge-1eefa6b469d3/The 67-year-old cattle rancher is a registered Republican.
For the past few years, Que J. Fullmer has split his time between Kansas and Colorado. He owns a cattle company and roughly 1,000 acres in Syracuse, Kansas, and his wife lives in Brighton, Colorado, where the couple owns a home and 300 acres.
In November 2016, Fullmer cast ballots in both states. He figured that because he pays taxes in both places, he was entitled to have his voice heard in local and state races in two states. He only voted for president, Donald Trump, in Kansas.
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Kobach repeatedly claims that hundreds of non-citizens are on the voter rolls, yet he has only prosecuted one non-citizen for voting in Kansas. The Peruvian national was sentenced to unsupervised probation for up to three years and required to pay a fine of $5,000.
A representative for Kobachs office did not respond to a request for comment about his latest prosecutions Friday. In April 2017, Kobach told the Kansas City Star that its absurd for anyone to say that voter fraud is not a widespread problem, even when he has failed to identify anywhere close to the number of illegal voters he says exist.
No matter how many cases we prosecute the political left will always whine that theres not enough cases to justify protecting our elections in this way, he said.
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Kobach is prosecuting this confused senior with four counts of felony voter fraud (Original Post)
deminks
Jan 2018
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djacq
(1,634 posts)1. Tilting at Windmills
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)2. Whatever. Throw the book at the "confused" rancher.
My eye. He and his wife almost certainly maintain separate legal residences to get lower property tax rates in both states, and perhaps other residency benefits, abusing the law for personal gain. We know a few couples who do it, and we've even considered this cheat ourselves, but not because we were "confused seniors" who didn't know right from wrong.
Here's coverage from the Kansas City Star. The 20-year-old is also believed to be registered Republican. Figures. Fits the pattern a few prosecutions here and there have managed to develop.
http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article193012809.html
Vinca
(50,273 posts)3. I find it more interesting it's only Republicans who end up being prosecuted.
Maybe I've missed something, but I have yet to hear of a Democrat being charged with voter fraud.