When the ACLU warned the Ford County clerk, Deborah Cox, about the potential harms and asked her to publicize a local hotline to aid stranded voters, she forwarded the email to Secretary of State Kris Kobach with the message, “LOL.” Kobach, a disgraced elections superintendent dedicated to voter suppression, has himself been sued and cited for acts of malice toward voters of color. Like Brian Kemp of Georgia, Kobach and other Republican secretaries of state have waged war on voter access, their targets uniformly being people of color, naturalized citizens, and students—all populations more
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