Brian Schaffner, a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst who helped conduct the original C. C.E.
“My hope is that Kansas will be to stopping election fraud what Arizona is to stopping illegal immigration,” he told The Kansas City Star.
“He should be running for president,” Arpaio said when he came to Kansas to campaign for Kobach, “but we’ll take secretary of state.”
Just a few days before Election Day in 2010, Kobach held a news conference and announced
that nearly 2,000 dead voters in the state were still registered to vote.
Close to half of those were under 30.
was arguing that a new program called Birth Link — which crosschecked flagged names on the list of voter registrations with Kansas state birth
records, conveniently automating the proof-of-citizenship process — discriminated against Kansas residents who were born outside the state.
“None of them are matched to a valid vote record.” When Kobach told the Kansas Legislature in February
that “18,000 aliens may be on the Kansas voting rolls,” the gallery erupted in laughter.
On June 8, Kobach announced his candidacy in the 2018 Kansas gubernatorial race, telling a room full of supporters in the Kansas City suburb of Lenexa
that he had “the honor of personally advising President Trump, both before the election and after the election, on how to reduce illegal immigration.
In 2014, after North Carolina joined Crosscheck, the head of the state board of elections reported
that in the 2012 general election, there were 35,750 voters in the state whose first and last names and dates of birth matched those of individuals who voted in the same election in a different state.