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Steven Rosenfeld
September 17, 2017 4:26 am
The Republican Partys efforts to disrupt voting and thwart representative government was on full display this past week, when despite ridicule in the press, the GOPs leading proponents of undermining voters and rigging elections were unbowed and forged ahead.
First came Kris Kobachs willfully incorrectbut headline-grabbingaccusation on Breitbart.com that more than 5,000 people illegally voted last fall in New Hampshire, delivering an Electoral College majority to Hillary Clinton and a U.S. senate seat to a Democrat. Kobach, an attorney whose anti-immigrant activism launched his career, is the Kansas secretary of state, a current gubernatorial candidate, and co-chair of President Trumps Orwellian-titled election integrity commission. Kobach was caught mangling some Republican-produced data about New Hampshire college students who were perfectly legal voters to make his false claim about presumed Democrats voting illegally.
Kobachs antipathy toward non-natives voting is nothing new. He has been repeatedly sued in Kansas over adding qualifications to the state voter registration form, including targeting out-of-staters who have moved there. That creates new barriers to vote in local and state elections. Kobachs anti-democratic partisanship was in sync with another clumsy display this week from another outspoken voter suppressor on Trumps election panel, Hans von Spakovsky. Now at The Heritge Foundation, von Spakovsky led the second Bush administrations voter fraud crusade at the Justice Department, and was caught lying about his email lobbying to keep Democrats from being on Trumps panel.
Trumps election commission keeps getting clownish grades for its antics. This weeks New Hampshire field hearing invited only white men to testify, prompting ridicule. Members were caught communicating via private emails for official businessthe same thing right-wingers went crazy about when Hillary Clinton did it. But Kobach didnt backtrack on his voter fraud claims and von Spakovsky didnt resign. No, they forged ahead with the panels real goal: to impede any citizen who doesnt support the GOP from voting, even as fellow panel members publicly chastised them for it.
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DK504
(3,847 posts)... Members were caught communicating via private emails for official business..."
It's only okay if all white men. Poor white guys have such a hard time in life.
lastlib
(23,286 posts)How can we do that, short of dynamite?
It does no good to ridicule them on an Internet forum--we have to take concrete steps to blockade what they want to do and prevent it from ever being done. What's the solution?