Kobach on Vote Caging

Check this out:

“Earlier today Kris Kobach, chairman of the Kansas GOP, sent out a self-congratulatory litany of accomplishments. Among them was one particularly eye-catching item:

To date, the Kansas GOP has identified and caged more voters in the last 11 months than the previous two years!

We’re going to move past the fact that any amount of voter identification would be more than the amount the GOP has done in the last two years, or four for that matter. The practice of caging is what caught out eye.

Caging is a particularly devious and underhanded method of purging likely Democratic voters from the pollbooks. It’s also illegal.

Read more about this here.

And to see how vote caging fits into the Attorney-firing scandal, here is a nice place to start.

Crooks and Liars points out that “Voter suppression through caging lists has become a standard part of the Republican playbook to steal elections for some time now. In Sept McClatchy detailed current Republican voter caging efforts underway in Florida and Ohio to “impede Democratic-leaning minorities from voting in 2008,” and back in July PBS NOW took a look at the Republican Party’s voter caging plan “designed to keep Democrats from voting, allegedly by targeting people based on their race and ethnicity.”

Watch that video below.

And if you’re the activist-type, here is the contact info for a few of our local newspapers if you’d like to ask them to cover Kobach’s email re: vote caging.

LJWorld
Topeka Capital Journal
KC Star

(h/t to Crooks and Liars for pointing me to the Blue Tide Rising piece and the NOW videos.)