Remember How You Thought The Voter Fraud Commission Was Dead and Gone? Zombie Alert!
Okay, so we talked about how the Voter Fraud Commission was a total bust and they were dissolving it completely while everybody chuckled.
Not so fast, Cowboy. Apparently we forgot to put a stake in its heart.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, vice chairman of the commission, says we shouldn’t get too excited.
The Kansas official said he expects officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and political appointees overseeing that agency to take over the commission’s work and begin efforts to match state voter rolls to federal databases of noncitizens. He insisted he was not disappointed with the president’s decision.
“It’s the right move,” Kobach said. “It’s a shifting in tactics from having the investigation be done by a federal commission to having it be done by a federal agency. The agency has a greater ability to move quickly to get the investigation done.”
Holy damn cow on farm-fresh grain, ICE is taking over the investigation because it’ better to have an “agency” than a “commission.” I think what he’s saying is that agencies have guns.
While Kobach admits that ICE knows diddle squat about voter fraud, he is terribly excited about ICE messing in the election process of the United States of damn America. Somebody please add his name to the Lost His Mind List.
Thanks to Deb for the heads up.
Does this mean Johnson is safe but Ramirez still has to worry? Or maybe not. Our neighbor is still stuck back in Japan, apparently because of concern about all those Japanese terrorists who may attack America.
You cannot get it through GOP heads that the incidence of voter fraud is vanishingly small because they can use voter fraud to reduce the numbers of Democrats voting. We need to find a way to use voter fraud to disenfranchise mean nasty old white people, and then they’ll drop the whole thing.
1Question: does the move of “voter fraud” to DHS come with the requisite gob of money which will fund its arteries and minor veins? That should tell you everything!
2When writing or calling your ‘representatives’ include some memory joggers for them. They might pretend to not know who Kris Kobach is or for their own self-interest wish to disavow any knowledge of Sam Brownback. So include references to the “Failed Kansas Experiment” to jolt their memories. When feeling creative toss Mike Pence into that stinking pile, too.
3How about mail-in ballots for all elections? Could that help?
4JJ, those here in Kansas put his name on that list the day after he was elected (along with names of those who voled for him).
5Rhea, I don’t understand why your Japanese neighbor can’t come home. When in hell did Japan become a dangerous country to America – other than during WWII? Maybe I’m missing something? I’ve had a hard day reading the #1 bestseller today, so I may be all here intellectually or any other way 🙂
61smartamerican, beats me– some problem with getting her visa or green card re-approved is all I know. She teaches Japanese language and culture at the University and is now starting to miss a second semester.
7Ted, oh how I wish we could trust the USPS as an infallible resource. But it ain’t. Just recently it was learned that a bunch of Dreamers (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals a/k/a DACA) who mailed in their re-up papers early were denied because the USPS has only 3 post office boxes in the entire country for such forms and they never made it to the government office. One of the p.o. boxes is in Chicago. This was such an embarrassment that these kids were given a reprieve and the apps that were marked late were revived and marked active. Please do not count on such a thing for votes!
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