President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order chartering an investigation into alleged corruption in the American electoral system - an institution he has repeatedly smeared with baseless charges of mass voter fraud.
Already, Kobach's baseless declarations about voter fraud have been cited by Team Trump to bolster the president's own based-on-air claims.
"The flawed mandate of the Commission, to be headed by Vice President Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kobach, both of whom have a track record of advocating for oppressively strict voting laws in their states, seems to suggest that the real objective of the Commission is to provide justification for more efforts to intimidate and suppress voter participation".
The claims continued after the election, with Trump claiming that voter fraud kept him from winning the popular vote over Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
ACLU's Voting Rights Project director said: "President Trump is attempting to spread his own fake news about election integrity. If the Trump administration really cares about election integrity, it will divulge its supposed evidence before embarking on this commission boondoggle".
Top civil rights leaders said the commission would encourage voter suppression by justifying new barriers like requiring identity cards for voting.
Other names under consideration include longtime New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner and Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, both Democrats, and Christy McCormick of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
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Though Kentucky does have a history of vote buying and coercion, there have not been documented cases of voter fraud - cases in which people have wrongfully registered to vote.
The Utah Republican said his committee will not be investigating voter fraud.
Kobach has stood by Trump's claims that millions of people voted illegally in November. "I don't believe I got one", he said in January.
Trump has fulfilled his promise: He signed an executive order today that establishes the "Presidential Commission on Election Integrity", a bipartisan commission spearheaded by Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach. And liberal voting rights groups are very anxious that this commission, especially with Kobach on it, is going to be used to justify Republican efforts to pass strict voter I.D. laws.
"State laws making it harder and harder for Americans to vote by imposing strict ID requirements and reducing early voting are rooted in lies about voter fraud". With or without this federal panel, the issue of voter fraud is one that can showcase how two people may live in the United States of America, but they seem to inhabit completely different universes when it comes to evaluating the threat of voter fraud.
Were they going to appoint a commission on How Trump Had the Biggest Inaugural Crowd in History while they were at it?
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