December 11, 2013
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A letter to the Editor from Linda McCulloch
From the December 11, 2013 Wichita Eagel Letters to the Editor
KOBACH HURDLES
I would like to weigh in on a Kansas issue, even though I am a Montana elected official.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is shamelessly working on a new piece of rd tape. Kansas voters will now be subject to two different standards for registration – one for state lections and one for federal elections.
Why would Kobach do such a thing, when the conservative philosophy supposedly favors getting rid of bureaucratic hurdles, not adding to them? The answer, as most people know by now, is that he is trying to rig the vote count so that fewer Democratic votes are cast in state elections.
Many people, especially poor voters and young voters, cannot readily access their birth certificates and don’t have a passport (only 5 percent of Americans have passports). These voters tend to be more likely Democrats than Republicans. Thus, by creating a hassle for them that results in their being turned away at the polls. Kobach thinks he can get more Republicans elected.
Kobach apparently does not understand that his job as Secretary of State is to make things easier for voters. Instead, he is trying to engineer election results by creating miserable bureaucratic hurdles or voters. It deprives people of basic rights, and hurts the democratic process.
Linda McCulloch,
Secretary of State,
Helena, Montana
Earlier this morning, I sent a thank you note to this lady. I also asked Santa to bring her to Kansas to be our Secretary of State.
