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True story from Kobach's Kansas:My mother is a white lady and a native Kansan, descended from more than a century of Kansans. She was born there and has lived there on and off for a majority of her life. She is an employee of the government in KS (public school teacher). Our freaking family farm in Liberal, KS ("the oxymoron city") is now the OZ museum/Dorothy's house--one of the most recognizable KS symbols! AND YET: she wanted to vote in the 2014 midterms but WAS NOT ALLOWED TO. Because of Mr. Kobach. His voter laws mandated that she produce divorce papers from her first marriage (1972-- don't get me started on the child bride stuff!) and her marriage license for her 2nd husband in 1976 in order to vote. These each cost her more than $50 to obtain. At great pains, she obtained these and many other documents required to "prove" she was a citizen and she wasn't faking her identity. However, she was turned away and not allowed to vote-- basically because she was taking care of my elderly grandma and living with her, so her name was not on the utility bills! So, no vote for my mom. If a native, white Kansan who was literally born in Dorothy's house had this much trouble voting-- how hard do you think it was for other people in KS? Kris Kobach SUCKS and this judge is our HERO. When we read this story we were immediately on the phone to each other laughing and crying and celebrating.

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Voter fraud was always a talking point to avoid admitting they lost, and to get their base out to the polls. The thought of brown folks voting what had no citizenship was an affront to all that is sacred(white). Since it works, they’ve beat that dead horse for years.

Somewhere along the lines, a model student, which I will assume would make him marginally intelligent as well(assuming facts not in evidence here), began to believe his own bullshit. So much that he thought that smoke and mirrors would woo a judge long enough to find this cabal of illegal voters.

Now he shit the bed and they have a court case where they can provide no evidence other than Infowars videos.

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Where are all of these illegal citizens breaking down the doors of polling station to vote ? I have worked as an election official , and know others of both parties ,none of us have ever met any ? This rubbish about voter fraud inside the Conservative Cult ( the Judge in this case must be an old time Moderate Republican ,yes they existed ) , all began when a black man ,Mr.Obama had the nerve to be elected President! I have news for the Cult , get used to it .

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"I got work to do. So bye!" - Ice Cube

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It's like they want their elections ratfucked.

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FLAWLESS LOGIC

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Is it safe to say Kobach is the LEEERRRROOOY JEEENNNNKKKIIIIIINS of SecStates?

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Georgie lurves teh dance partyiz https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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Watch for a rule change in this Repub effort to change rules toward indefinite detention and shipping these folks to Guantanamo.Whatever makes Trumps friends in the private prison industry the most money.

Kiddie Koncentration Kamps, Trumps newest branded development in collusion with the GEO group. GEO the largest private prison builder and operator in the country. A business with 2 billion a year price tag.Your tax dollars at work

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They're already crankin it out at Dimbart.

Maybe they'll also post that a different source at the same secret website pointed out that Trump's a closet cow-fucker who gave all his wives animal-related venereal diseases before he found Devin Nunes to party with.

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"Democrats are the problem. They don’t care about crime and want illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be, to pour into and infest our Country, like MS-13. They can’t win on their terrible policies, so they view them as potential voters!"

Interesting how about 20 years ago California Republicans were drooling over the prospect of wooing Latino voters into the party, and a lot of L.A. County Latino business owners fell for it because they wanted to be "accepted." But on the whole, it never really worked because most of the "newcomers" were smart enough to realize that all the GOP wanted was cheap labor -- like the kind Trump hires at Mar a Logopolis. So the bulk of Latinos went Dem. So now the GOP calls them "criminals" because they were too smart to keep assholes like George Deukmejian and Pete Wilson in public office. Choke on it, Trump, you orange fucking turd.

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He was an astounding student, according to his record according to google. And then a bumbling fool in court. As if he'd never appeared in court. Even I was shocked and I don't know much about it. It's true his case was founded on lies but he's a crook so I would have thought he'd pay some liars to lie or something. Or maybe he thought he'd get a certain kind of judge? The late Wm Rehnquist would have backed him 100%-- we do know that.

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Don't be surprised if this happens---

Some GOP shill:

Why, I saw on a notoriously Democrat liberal top secret website that they ADMITTED that there are ..."30,00 MS13 members"..."in the United States"...who are "illegal" and "that's why you need to lock up 18 month old babies". !!!!!!!!!

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This little trial was excellent! It exposed the canard of voter fraud used by Republican politicians nationwide in their voter suppression efforts. Sure it helped that Kobach is a wannabe lawyer and their experts are crackpots but Kobach had to do his own lawyering apparently. i think it was probably refused by every other lawyer they approached in the beginning so they let Kobach do it. He's the zealot with the voter suppression urge.

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