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Kris Kobach: We Don't Know If Voter Fraud Was A Problem Yet

Ryan J. Reilly | November 19, 2010, 9:03AM

Kris Kobach, the Secretary of State-elect in Kansas who ran on a platform of ending supposedly endemic voter fraud in Kansas, told TPM that it wasn't yet clear if voter fraud was an issue in the election.

Speaking with TPM after a panel on civil rights at the Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention on Thursday, Kobach said he would have to wait until all the reports came in.

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Voter Fraud Candidate Kris Kobach Wins In Kansas

Rachel Slajda | November 3, 2010, 12:47PM

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Kris Kobach, who ran on a platform of preventing allegedly widespread voter fraud and helped write the Arizona immigration bill, won his campaign for Kansas secretary of state.

Kobach, who was expected to win big, got 59% of the vote to Democrat Chris Biggs' 37%.

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One Of Kris Kobach's Zombie Voters Actually Still Alive, Thanks

Ryan J. Reilly | October 29, 2010, 5:18PM

Kris Kobach, a Republican candidate for Secretary of State in Kansas, has been all over the voter fraud issue, and has asserted that dead voters are still casting ballots. At a press conference, he said one of those so-called zombie voters was Alfred K. Brewer, who -- according to Kobach -- died in 1996 but still voted in the primary this year.

But instead of pushing up daisies, the Wichita Eagle found Brewer in his front yard, raking up leaves.

"I don't think this is heaven, not when I'm raking leaves," Brewer, a Republican, told the newspaper. "I'm just as surprised as you are."

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AZ Immigration Law Writer Running For Office In Kansas On Voter Fraud Platform

Rachel Slajda | October 25, 2010, 9:00AM

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For the most part, the Republican machine that churns out allegations of voter fraud in the weeks before an election operates in the shadows, a few steps away from the actual Republican Party.

Not so in Kansas, where the Republican candidate for secretary of state is running almost entirely on a platform of preventing voter fraud, especially by illegal immigrants.The candidate, Kris Kobach, is promising to check identification at polling places, require proof of citizenship when registering and turn the secretary of state's office into an enforcement powerhouse.

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AZ Immigration Bill Writer's Resume: GOP Activist, Ashcroft Aide, Arpaio Ally

Zachary Roth | April 28, 2010, 9:29AM

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The controversial Arizona immigration bill signed into law last week was written in part by a conservative immigration law expert and Republican activist who's a former top aide to John Ashcroft, was recently hired by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and is running for statewide office.

Kris Kobach, a law professor at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, was brought in by far-right Arizona legislator Russell Pearce to help draft the legislation that critics are calling "a social and racial sin."

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Arpaio Paying Right-Wing Lawyer Big Bucks For 'Immigration Enforcement Training'

Zachary Roth | March 3, 2010, 2:32PM

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The county sheriff's office run by Joe Arpaio is paying a prominent right-wing immigration lawyer between $250 and $300 per hour to train cops on how to enforce immigration laws, according to Arpaio's top deputy.

As we reported last month,the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office hired Kris Kobach -- who was John Ashcroft's top immigration adviser at DOJ, and specializes in crafting local laws designed to go after those who harbor illegal immigrants -- to train deputies in the finer points of immigration enforcement. In announcing the training program, Arpaio appeared to be thumbing his nose at the Justice Department, which recently limited his department's ability to make immigration arrests after numerous civil-rights complaints.

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For Immigration Enforcement Training, Arpaio Turns To Controversial Right-Wing Lawyer

Zachary Roth | February 10, 2010, 2:37PM

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We told you earlier that Sheriff Joe Arpaio has doubled down on his defiance of the federal government, announcing that he'll train his deputies to enforce federal immigration law. This comes after 100 of those deputies were stripped by the Department of Homeland Security of their power to make immigration arrests, and as a federal probe of Arpaio's controversial tactics heats up.

But it looks like that's just the half of it. To run the new training program, Arpaio has turned to a controversial former Bush Justice Department official and Republican operative who specializes in crafting local laws designed to go after those who harbor illegal immigrants.

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