Kris Kobach, the man behind some of the worst voter suppression legislation in America, learned tonight that his status as a repeat loser in federal court remains, as Kobach discovered tonight as the Federal 10th Circuit upheld an earlier ruling making clear that the Secretary of State must put voters on the rolls.
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Friday’s ruling from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily upholds a federal judge’s order that required Kansas to allow those individuals to vote. The state has said up to 50,000 people could be affected. The court agreed to quickly hear the appeal.
The ruling, which supports prior losses by Kris Kobach, contends that a dual-track voting system proposed by the Secretary of State is simply not allowable.
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Under the dual voting lists, federally registered voters are given a provisional ballot in Kansas and election officials throw out any votes made in local or state races. The judge separately noted such provisional ballots that Kobach mandated for the federally registered voters violate the secrecy of the ballot, especially in smaller precincts where election officials know their neighbors.
“Clearly no such authority exists at all in the Kansas Secretary of State to encumber the voting process as he has done here,” Judge Franklin Theis wrote.
With rulings running against the wayward SoS, the question is Republicans in Kansas face is how the newly enabled voters — up to 50,000 of them — feel about the Republicans who tried to cut them off from voting over the last few years.
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