The voter ID laws and other tactics that sprang up in several states last year to prevent minorities from casting their ballots offer incontestable proof of the need for strict voting rights laws.
He's gained prominence for his hardline stance on immigration as well as his support for strict voting regulations.
Under his watch, the North Carolina statehouse has enacted strict voting laws and refused to expand Medicaid under Obama's Affordable Care Act, partly giving rise to the "Moral Mondays" protest movement by the NAACP that has spread across the South.
For the last three elections, Republicans have been ramping up cries of voter fraud as a way of undermining the legitimacy of the election results should they not turn out in their favor and providing a reason for strict voting purges that are likely to remove many Democratic voters from the rolls.
Voting Rights: Support stricter voting rules such as voter ID requirements or reduced registration times, even if they prevent some people from voting?
Kirk: No. Voting Rights: Support stricter voting rules such as voter ID requirements or reduced registration times, even if they prevent some people from voting?
The state government is dominated by Republicans anxious enough about their hold on power to have instituted, in 2013, one of the strictest voting laws in the country (among other provisions, it bars people from registering and voting the same day, requires them to produce a photo I.D. at the polling station, and limits the time allowed for early voting).
North Carolina, a stunning example, implemented one of the strictest voting laws in the country that year.
In promoting stricter voting ID laws, Kobach has said millions of non-citizens may be registered to vote in the U.S., while failing to prove his claim.
Following the massive minority turnout in 2008, many states have passed stricter voting laws, which have included cutting early voting options and adding photo ID requirements.
