One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy

by Carol Anderson

As “Exhibit A,” he pointed to a case where a man named Albert Brewer, who had been dead for years, showed up and voted in the last primary election. Kobach held up this instance as one of thousands lurking in the voter rolls, skewing elections, canceling out the legitimate votes from hardworking, honest Americans. It was vintage Kobach, and vintage GOP. It was also not true. Yes, there was an Albert Brewer who had died. And there was one who voted. But they were not one and the same. The Albert Brewer who voted, Albert Brewer Jr., was the son of the man who had died. Kobach hadn’t even bothered to check before he started slinging accusations.45 That kind of deliberate sloppiness would, however, be his trademark; it’s the way he garners the support necessary to wipe thousands off the rolls in Kansas and millions throughout the United States.