The depth of disfranchisement, of wringing the right to vote out of American citizens, led award-winning columnist Charles P. Pierce to conclude that “Kobach is Jim Crow walking.”70 Investigative journalist Greg Palast, after surveying the racial casualties in Ohio, knew that it wasn’t just Kansas’s secretary of state but an entire GOP apparatus that decided the “only way” to win an election was “by stealing American citizens’ votes.” “It’s a brand-new Jim Crow. Today, on Election Day, they’re not going to use white sheets to keep away black voters. Today they’re using spreadsheets.”
