Trump to name Kris Kobach to leadership role on new voter fraud commission

Article publisher: 
Kansas City Star
Article date: 
11 May 2017
Article category: 
National News
Medium
Article Body: 
President Donald Trump will appoint Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to a new commission that will investigate voter fraud and other election issues, according to White House officials.
 
Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Thursday creating the Presidential Commission on Election Integrity. Vice President Mike Pence will serve as chair and Kobach will serve as vice chair...
 
Kobach, who is weighing a run for Kansas governor in 2018, is the only secretary of state in the nation with prosecutorial power and has championed the state’s controversial proof of citizenship law, which requires voters to provide a birth certificate or passport to register...
 
 
 

 

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