ACLU Lawsuit Sheds Light on Kris Kobach's Plan to Undermine Voting Rights

By Greg Palast, Greg Palast's Facebook Page

11 October 17

n Friday, thanks to a lawsuit filed by the ACLU, a federal judge unsealed two documents relating to Kris Kobach’s proposed amendments to the National Voter Registration Act (a.k.a. the “motor-voter law").

The first document was a memo that Kobach brought to a meeting with President-elect Trump in November 2016, which was partially exposed during a photo op and revealed that Kobach wants to "stop aliens from voting" by drafting amendments to the National Voter Registration Act "to promote proof of citizenship requirements." (See doc: aclu.org/legal-document/fish-v-kobach-exhibit-u)

The second unsealed document offers more insight into precisely how Kobach intends to do this. (See doc: aclu.org/legal-document/fish-v-kobach-exhibit-ee)

As we've previously reported, the requirement to prove citizenship to vote already stopped 36,000 Kansas students from voting because they didn’t have their passport or original birth certificate. Not one was busted as an alien, but all were busted as likely Democrats. (See story: gregpalast.com/trump-picks-al-capone-vote-rigging-investig…/)

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