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A privacy group is suing Kansas Secretary of State Kris W. Kobach and President Trump's commission on election fraud after Mr. Kobach requested states turn over names and other public information on voters. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Kris Kobach said voter commission isn’t trying to prove Trump’s claims about fraud in 2016

By Sally Persons - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump, with Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, left, and Vice President Mike Pence, right, speaks at a meeting of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, Wednesday, July 19, 2017, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Donald Trump touts bipartisan election integrity commission, 30 states willing to comply

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach talks with a reporter in his office in Topeka on May 17, 2017. Kobach, the vice chair of President Donald Trump's election fraud commission, is taking issue with reports that a majority of states are refusing to comply with a request for voter information. Kobach says that news stories stating that 44 states have "refused" to provide voter information to the commission are "patently false." (Associated Press) **FILE**

Congressional Black Caucus, Dems pressure Mike Pence to remove Kris Kobach from election commission

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

From left, Gary Mogensen, Barbara Ventarola, Carrie Barker-Carson and Karen Louden hold signs as protesters from several central Florida voter advocacy groups demonstrate in front of the Orange County Supervisor of Elections office, in Orlando, Fla., Monday, July 10, 2017. The groups are protesting the support by Florida governor Rick Scott of the voter fraud probe by President Donald Trump that would collect personal voter registration data. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)

Trump’s voter commission suspends data collection, awaits judge’s ruling

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

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Kobach says reports of massive resistance to voter commission are ‘fake news’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump waves as he walks from Marine One to board Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport, in Morristown, N.J., Monday, July 3, 2017, en route to Washington from Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump commission: American voters don’t have right to ‘informational privacy’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Trump appointed Kansas Secretary of State Kris W. Kobach to join Vice President Mike Pence in leading a commission to study voter fraud and suppression. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump signs order creating voter-fraud panel

By Stephen Dinan and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Kris Kobach: ‘99.9 percent’ sure Donald Trump’s border wall will be in GOP platform

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

A voter marks a ballot for the New Hampshire primary inside a voting booth on Feb. 9 in Manchester, N.H. (Associated Press)

Voter citizenship checks in Kansas, Alabama, Georgia upheld by judge

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Kansas Secretary of State Kris W. Kobach, the lawyer for Mississippi and the agents, said the plaintiffs will either ask the appeals court to reconsider or else take their fight to the Supreme Court. (Associated Press)

Obama amnesty challenge could be undercut by ‘Dreamer’ lawsuit ruling

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

14-month-old Zoe Buck checks out an empty voting booth as at her mother, Julie Buck, votes at left on Nov. 4 at the Alaska Zoo polling place in Anchorage, Alaska. (Associated Press)

Obama amnesty creates loophole for illegal immigrants to register, vote in elections

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is confident in the Friday ruling, saying the Constitution gives states the right to determine voter qualifications. (Associated Press)

Civil rights groups appeal voter registration form ruling

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Evelyn Dennis hangs a U.S. flag as election workers set up voting booths at Memorial Elementary School in Little Ferry, N.J., on Nov. 6, 2012. (Associated Press)

Voting rights activists appeal proof-of-citizenship ruling

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Ruling lets states require proof of citizenship from anyone who registers to vote

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**FILE** Aaron Belenky shows part of a letter from election officials while standing in front of his apartment in Overland Park, Kan., on Aug. 14, 2013. The letter lists the valid citizenship documents needed to register to vote in Kansas for the first time. Belenky allowed the American Civil Liberties Union to list him as one of three aggrieved voters in a notice sent this week to Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach. (Associated Press)

Ruling lets states require proof of citizenship from anyone who registers to vote

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** Voters wait in line on Nov. 6, 2012, at a polling place located inside a shopping mall in Austin, Texas, on Election Day. Attorney General Eric Holder says Texas is the first place that he will intervene to defend against what he calls attacks on the voting rights of minorities, but it is also the only state where the federal government has a clear opportunity to get involved, experts say. (Associated Press)

Holder sues Texas to stop voter ID law, congressional maps

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

KNIGHT: Kansas leads way against ballot fraud

By Robert Knight - The Washington Times

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney boards his campaign plane Wednesday in Bedford, Mass., heading for South Carolina, site of the next primary contest on Jan. 21. His strong stance against illegal immigration dovetails with South Carolina's tough new law. (Associated Press)

Romney’s push against amnesty makes immigration a defining issue

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Supreme Court OKs Arizona’s business immigration law

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times