Trump says states are ‘trying to hide’ things from his voter fraud commission. Here’s what they actually say.by wpjljron
Sunday, July 2nd, 2017.Trump says states are ‘trying to hide’ things from his voter fraud commission. Here’s what they actually say.More than two dozen states have refused to fully comply with a sweeping and unprecedented White House request to turn over voter registration data, including sensitive information like partial Social Security numbers, party affiliation and military status. Overall, the states that have said they will not be complying at all with the Kobach commission’s request […]
More than two dozen states have refused to fully comply with a sweeping and unprecedented White House request to turn over voter registration data, including sensitive information like partial Social Security numbers, party affiliation and military status.
dnc chair rona mcdaniel, there was a visual, the optics if you will with kobach. i heard republican members saying maybe he steps aside. that s happened now and it is squeaky tight. what do you think is going on, on the ground, that will help kobach win? he did the right thing rec e recusing himself. it gives assurances to the kansas voters that everything oigs the up and up. and they want to make sure that everything is done properly. and i know chris kobach wants to make sure the voters feel good about the process. he did the right thing. it ll come down to the provisional and absentee ballots and the voters will make themselves clear. we ll see what the final vote tally it is, as you said it is razor thin. whoever the candidate is is going to be the next governor of kansas, we will support them, both candidates support the president, and we ll see what happens. harris: i want to talk just more in general about the primary season and kind of on this friday, how it s all
voted that they get their vote counted. harris: so much politics to get through, let s get to the facts. gillian turner what s going on? le the governor s race between jeff collier and the secretary of state, chris kobach, remains in a dead heat. so far about 311,000 votes counted, and 10,000 absentee and provisional ballots remain to be tallied up. kobach is claiming a .04 lead but is recusing himself from the role overseeing the results. his opponent says it s about time. i appreciate any sort of recusal, probably should have happened a long time ago. and accusing kobach of funny business. secretary kobach s office was instructing counties not to count ballots in the mail. those clearly have to be counted under kansas law. we want to make sure the law is
followed and everybody who has voted that they get their vote counted. now, with secretary of state kobach chief elections officer and has been managing the ongoing effort to sort through tallies for several counties where inaccuracies were reported. he led the charge alongside president trump against what he believes was widespread voter fraud during the 2016 presidential election. but he s punching back against colyer insisting this makes him better qualified. it s interesting, my on poen whoent demanded recusal, doesn t understand the process. the counting is done at the county level not at the state level. my office doesn t actually do any counting of ballots. after discrepancies in two counties have been officially rectified, kobach just 125 votes in the lead. harris: all right, gillian, thank you.
thousand provisional ballots that are set to be counted next week. is there any history on provisional ballots, is it 30% of them, 50% of them that end up being counted? is there any sort of estimation over the years about how many of those we think will be legitimate votes? my colleague, brian lowry, spent most of the morning trying to figure out that. we ve ascertained about 60% to 70% end up being counted but it s not clear if they re democratic or republican votes so it remains to be seen how many of those will go towards this gop governor s race. so try to help me out here. did kris kobach fully recuse himself, because there seemed to be some confusion at first. he said i ll recuse myself but i haven t done anything yet. obviously the governor s letter was pretty tough. has he fully recused himself, and what does that mean? well, this process is really interesting because when we interested secretary kobach are you going to recuse himself, he kind of laughed it off the day