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Trump Establishes Voter Fraud Commission

Judge skewers Republicans, orders 2 new early voting sites for Marion County

Barker issued the ruling in response to a lawsuit filed by the Indianapolis NAACP and Common Cause Indiana that claimed Marion County's failure to allow convenient and multiple early voting locations has suppressed voting rights in urban communities with diverse populations.

"In view of the absence of any credible neutral and nonpartisan explanation for the (Marion County Election) Board’s failure to re-establish satellite (voting) offices after 2008 and 2009 ... the record permits only one conclusion," the judge wrote. That conclusion, she wrote, is that it was "partisanship motivated.

An IndyStar investigation found that state and local Republicans have expanded early voting in GOP-dominated areas and restricted it in Democratic areas, prompting a significant change in Central Indiana voting patterns.

From 2008 to 2016, GOP officials expanded early voting stations in Republican dominated Hamilton County, IndyStar's analysis found, and decreased them in the state's biggest Democratic hotbed, Marion County.
 

lolol at Kobach being ordered to attend six hours of legal education. This guy is running for governor.

And to bring this back to the original thread, this is all related to Kobach's claims that undocumented immigrants are voting illegally.

Judge Tosses Kansas' Proof-Of-Citizenship Voter Law And Rebukes Sec. Of State Kobach

Kansas cannot require people to prove their U.S. citizenship before they can vote, a federal judge says, ruling that the state's election law is unconstitutional. The judge sharply criticized Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who has based much of his political career on worries about voter fraud.

Chief District Judge Julie A. Robinson sanctioned Kobach — who led President Trump's voter fraud commission — by ordering him to take a legal class on the rules of evidence or procedure. Kobach represented his office and was the lead attorney in the case.

The judge said Kobach failed to show there had been a "substantial number" of people who managed to register to vote in Kansas without being U.S. citizens.

Heading into the trial, Kobach said that since 1999, his office had confirmed 127 cases of noncitizens who had either registered to vote or attempted to do so. Of that number, 43 had succeeded in registering and 11 had voted.

Those figures were just "the tip of the iceberg," Kobach had vowed. But after reviewing the state's evidence and hearing from its experts, Robinson concluded that "there is no iceberg; only an icicle, largely created by confusion and administrative error."
 
 
http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/397183-new-hampshire-governor-signs-controversial-voting-bill

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) has signed a controversial measure that will limit the number of college students and military personnel who can vote in state elections.

The bill, signed on Friday and a source of partisan bickering in the statehouse for years, will require registered voters be permanent residents of New Hampshire, obtain a state driver’s license within 60 days of voting and register their vehicles in New Hampshire.

New Hampshire Republicans don't want college students (or members of the military, but mainly college students) voting in their elections.

The governor previously claimed to be against the bill because it would discourage college students from voting. Then, I guess, he remembered that he was a Republican.
 
I assume students who don't drive can get an ID, right?
 
Oh definitely. There could be a rube uprising.
 
Brian Kemp, Enemy of Democracy

That’s why Mr. Kemp has worked diligently to fortify the Republicans’ crumbling bulwark since he became secretary of state in 2010. He has begun investigations into organizations that registered nearly 200,000 new Asian-American and African-American voters — efforts that resulted in the first majority-black school board in a small town.

While Mr. Kemp insisted that these investigations were about preventing in-person voter fraud (which basically doesn’t exist), he was more candid when talking with fellow Republicans: “Democrats are working hard,” he warned in a recording released by a progressive group “registering all these minority voters that are out there and others that are sitting on the sidelines.”

“If they can do that, they can win these elections in November,” Mr. Kemp said. Therefore, even after the multiple investigations yielded no indication of fraud, thousands of people registered during these drives were not on the voter registration rolls, and a court ruling kept it that way.

Mr. Trump’s endorsement, therefore, was no surprise. Mr. Kemp had pulled off an incredible feat: Georgia’s population increased, but since 2012, the number of registered voters has decreased. He, like Mr. Trump, has been steadfast in riding the voter-fraud train, regardless of how often and thoroughly the claim has been debunked. His work has winnowed out minorities who overwhelmingly vote Democratic and so threaten the Republican stranglehold on Georgia.
 
“That complacency was evident when groups sued the state, alleging that the 2016 presidential election and a 2017 special election had been hacked. Rather than being on high alert to get to the bottom of it, after Mr. Kemp received notification of the lawsuit, officials at Kennesaw State University, which provides logistical support for the state’s election machinery, “destroyed the server that housed statewide election data.” That series of events, including an April visit to the small campus by Ambassador Sergey Kislyak of Russia, raised warning flags to many observers. But not to Mr. Kemp, who said that there was nothing untoward in any of it; the erasure was “in accordance with standard IT procedures.””

Wow. Destroying servers. You’d think Republicans would think that’s a bad thing.
 
“That complacency was evident when groups sued the state, alleging that the 2016 presidential election and a 2017 special election had been hacked. Rather than being on high alert to get to the bottom of it, after Mr. Kemp received notification of the lawsuit, officials at Kennesaw State University, which provides logistical support for the state’s election machinery, “destroyed the server that housed statewide election data.” That series of events, including an April visit to the small campus by Ambassador Sergey Kislyak of Russia, raised warning flags to many observers. But not to Mr. Kemp, who said that there was nothing untoward in any of it; the erasure was “in accordance with standard IT procedures.””

Wow. Destroying servers. You’d think Republicans would think that’s a bad thing.

Kennesaw State also had a fraudulent voter registration push in 2016.

http://www.cbs46.com/story/33044337...o-be-leery-of-unauthorized-voter-registration
 
I was waiting on someone from the side backing this plan to comment on this because it just sounds way to brazen. Turns out, it was so bad that (after attention and press coverage) even Kemp has now publicly objected to the plan.

ACLU of Georgia Slams Plan to Close Many of County's Polls

The Randolph County elections board is scheduled to meet Thursday to discuss a proposal that would eliminate seven of nine polling locations in the county, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia. Included in the proposed closures is Cuthbert Middle School where nearly 97 percent of voters are black.

"There is strong evidence that this was done with intent to make it harder for African Americans," ACLU of Georgia attorney Sean Young said. The ACLU has sent a letter to the elections board demanding that the polling places remain open and has filed open records requests for information about the proposal to close the polling places.

Ga. county under pressure to reject ‘ugly’ plan to close precincts

Dozens of voters crowded an elections board meeting in Randolph County on Thursday to blast plans to close polling sites for the November election that were open during this year’s primary and runoff contests.

And the office of Secretary of State Brian Kemp, a Republican candidate for governor who oversees elections, added its objection to the proposed closures. Kemp spokeswoman Candice Broce said Thursday the office’s elections director advised the county to ditch the proposal.
 
I would hope even board conservatives would think it is ridiculous and shady to close polling places that were open for the primary and run-off.
 
Speaking of GA, a friend of mine from GA posted this on Wednesday:

"Voter registration high season and our registrar’s office is closed for OVER 2 hours on a Wednesday. Went by at 11:52; door locked, no note. Went back by at 12:46, door locked, note that says, “will return at 2 pm.” This is what voter suppression looks like in Baldwin County, GA."

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Later she posted:

"I also just found out that the County Registrar called my employer about my post . . ."

"Well, nominally it was because I "was saying they didn't want college students to register" and they are doing collaborations to get college students registered. Except my post (and concern) was not about college students specifically. It was about incorrect information. And so, feels a little problematic to me."
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