Here is the link. The U.S. Justice Department is reviewing new voter-photo ID laws in some states, but apparently Kansas is not one of them. “We have not been contacted at all by the Justice Department in this respect,” said Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach.
Secretary Kobach should understand that DOJ will focus its efforts on delaying voter ID laws only in those Section 5 southern states where they can hide behind their obscure, subjective and ever malleable retrogressive standard.
Where, despite the best efforts and practices implemented by jurisidictions, DOJ can simply send a last minute letter stating that the jurisdiction has unfortunately failed to meet its burden of proof in convincing the bureaucracy that the laws are not discriminatory.
It is not an accident that DOJ decides the fight the last battles over photoID in Section 5 states where they can hide behind their manufactured burdens of proof.