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On May 11, President Trump formed a commission on 鈥渆lection integrity鈥� to investigate voter fraud and voter suppression in the United States. The executive order follows repeated, unsubstantiated claims from the president that voted illegally in the 2016 presidential election.

There are immediate red flags that the public needs to be aware of: namely the complete lack of evidence that would justify this use of taxpayer resources and the record of the official tapped to lead it.

Kris Kobach, Kansas secretary of state and vice-chair of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Election Integrity is a known voter suppressor. He has been brought to court 鈥� and lost 鈥� several times for suppressing the constitutional rights of citizens to vote in Kansas.

Voting is the cornerstone of our democracy and the fundamental right upon which all our civil liberties rest. Americans deserve a champion who will fight to protect and expand voting rights, not suppress them. Kris Kobach is not that person and here are the top reasons why:

1. Kris Kobach that President Trump won the popular vote, once you subtract 鈥渢hree to five million illegal votes鈥� cast in the 2016 presidential election. This theory, first and then parroted by Kobach, does not hold water. Academic and legal experts, , and even have all rejected this claim.
2. Kris Kobach has wreaked havoc on voting rights in Kansas.
   In September 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, in a unanimous opinion by Judge Jerome Holmes, an appointee of George W. Bush, found that Kobach had engaged in by blocking 18,000 motor voter applicants from registering to vote in Kansas. The 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 Voting Rights Project has sued him four times, and Kobach lost all four cases in 2016.
3. Kris Kobach says that there are lots of non-citizens voting. He just can鈥檛 produce any evidence. But don鈥檛 just take our word for it, hear it from the courts:
   • In May 2017, U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson, appointed by George W. Bush, found that Kobach had 鈥�.鈥�
   • In October 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit described Kobach鈥檚 theory of Kansas鈥� widespread problem of noncitizens voting as 鈥�.鈥�
   • In September 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said that Kobach had 鈥溾�� of noncitizen voting.
4. Kobach is the chief architect of the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck program, a notoriously flawed system which Kobach admits generates when trying to find people registered to vote in more than one state. A recent study found that Crosscheck 鈥渨ould eliminate about 200 registrations used to cast legitimate votes for every one registration used to cast a double vote.鈥� And according to , Kobach 鈥渆xamined 84 million votes cast in 22 states to look for duplicate registrants. In the end 14 cases were referred for prosecution, representing 0.00000017 percent of the votes cast.鈥�
5. Kobach has a secret voting plan. He showed it to Donald Trump but doesn鈥檛 want the public to see it. Last November, carrying documents into a meeting with then-President-Elect Trump, which appeared to reference a proposal to change the federal motor-voter law. The 老澳门开奖结果 sought those documents in connection with litigation against Kobach over his office鈥檚 violations of the motor-voter law, but Kobach鈥檚 lawyers denied they even existed.

   In April 2017, U.S. Magistrate James O鈥橦ara Kobach for engaging in 鈥渨ord-play meant to present a materially inaccurate picture of the documents,鈥� and ordered Kobach to turn them over. The 老澳门开奖结果 has now received , but Kobach continues to claim that they are 鈥渃onfidential鈥� and cannot be shared with the media or the general public.

6. Kris Kobach isn鈥檛 just a threat to voting rights.
   • Kobach co-authored S.B. 1070, Arizona鈥檚 infamous racial profiling law from 2010, which required local law enforcement to demand the papers of anyone they suspected of being in the country illegally. The law prompted a nationwide outcry and economic boycott, and the 老澳门开奖结果 fought it in the courts for years. The Supreme Court and the lower courts either blocked or drastically limited all of its major provisions. The anti-immigrant bill gave rise to several copycat bills in other states, including 鈥� which Kobach also helped to draft. The 老澳门开奖结果 and allies defeated those laws in the courts as well, exposing the fact that Kobach鈥檚 legislation was built on a foundation of legal error.
   • In 2010, Kobach assisted in drafting , designed to end the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship for any child born in the United States. That bill was too extreme to gain any traction even among the legislatures that had adopted Kobach鈥檚 reprehensible racial profiling laws.
   • Kobach serves as counsel to the , the legal arm of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has listed as a hate group since 2007. SPLC has written extensively about Kobach鈥檚 role in advancing a .
   • In 2012, Kobach compared homosexuality to . During his failed 2004 congressional campaign, he accused LGBTQ+-rights groups like the Human Rights Campaign of promoting 鈥渉omosexual pedophilia.鈥�