“Despite the claims of the Secretary of State (Kris Kobach) proven cases of voter fraud in Kansas are very limited. I have worked in voter election law for 15 to 20 years in this state, and I have looked hard to catch people who are cheating, and to find people who are cheating. People from both parties, citizens, non-citizens,” says Kansas Rep. John Carmichael, D – Wichita. “It is an infinitesimal number of people. In fact, the Secretary of State, when he testified in 2014, had identified 19 cases of double voting, and to date he has now filed prosecution in nine cases. Each of those prosecutions has been against United States citizens, none of whom have been immigrants.”

Read the full story at http://ksn.com/2017/01/25/president-trump-calling-for-voter-fraud-investigation-has-some-kansans-asking-questions/

Rep. John Carmichael, D-Wichita, who has introduced a bill to strip Kobach of his prosecutorial power, said Kobach has dramatically overstated the frequency of voter fraud during his tenure as Kansas’ secretary of state.

Read the full story at http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article128687579.html

Democratic Representative John Carmichael, of Wichita, is seeking to return responsibility for prosecuting election crimes to local prosecutors rather than the Kansas Secretary of State’s office. The Legislature approved a statute in 2015 giving prosecutorial powers to the Secretary of State’s office. Representative Carmichael says only about ten cases have been prosecuted.

Read the full story at http://kansaspublicradio.org/kpr-news/bill-seeks-return-election-crime-prosecution-local-authorities

Reversing course from two years ago, Rep. John Carmichael is proposing to repeal a law that stripped cities and counties of authority to regulate the placement of political signs.

Carmichael, D-Wichita, voted in favor of the law as part of House Bill 2183: http://kslegislature.org/li_2016/b2015_16/measures/hb2183/, a catch-all political campaign bill that passed late in the 2015 legislative session.

On Friday, he said he didn’t expect it to result in the “forests of signs along the major thoroughfares of Wichita” that sprouted during the 2016 elections.

Read the full story at http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article128120734.html

State Rep. John Carmichael, a Democrat from Wichita, is sponsoring a bill to repeal the secretary of state’s prosecutorial power, noting Kobach has filed just nine prosecutions against people for double voting in the past year and a half. Six voters were convicted and fined between $500 and $5,500. None involved noncitizens voting illegally.

Carmichael says Kobach is using his prosecutorial power for “political purposes,” saying Kobach has made a name for himself by contending noncitizens are stealing elections.

Read the full story at http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2017/jan/21/voting-rights-advocates-seek-rein-kansas-election-/

State Rep. John Carmichael, a Democrat from Wichita, is sponsoring a bill to repeal the secretary of state’s prosecutorial power, noting Kobach has filed just nine prosecutions against people for double voting in the past year and a half. Six voters were convicted and fined between $500 and $5,500. None involved noncitizens voting illegally.

Carmichael says Kobach is using his prosecutorial power for “political purposes,” saying Kobach has made a name for himself by contending noncitizens are stealing elections.

Read the full story at http://cjonline.com/news/local/2017-01-21/voting-rights-advocates-seek-rein-kansas-election-laws

Rep. John Carmichael, a Wichita Democrat, reacted sarcastically Friday to the new filing against the voter:

“The scoundrel.” Carmichael said with a laugh. “Oh my!”

Carmichael, who has filed a bill that would strip Kobach of his prosecutorial powers, said he knows of no other professional prosecutor in Kansas who uses so many resources to go after just a handful of misdemeanor cases.

“I seriously question whether the Secretary of State is being a good steward of the taxpayer’s money,” Carmichael said.

Read the full story at http://kcur.org/post/kobach-files-ninth-case-alleged-voter-fraud

Democratic Representative John Carmichael doesn’t expect the idea to get much traction with lawmakers. He says people who register at the DMV are legally registered and should be allowed to vote in all races.

“It represents one more attempt to suppress votes in Kansas by our chief election officer. His job is to encourage voting and participation, not to disenfranchise lawfully registered Kansas voters,” says Carmichael.

Read the full story at http://kansaspublicradio.org/kpr-news/kobach-seeks-authority-create-two-tiered-kansas-voting-system

Rep. John Carmichael, D-Wichita, has filed a bill to take away Kobach’s prosecutorial authority. He called nine cases for a single prosecutor a waste of prosecutorial resources.

Carmichael said the potential deterrent effect of prosecuting fraud depends on how many cases actually exist.

“I guess he’s identified roughly 20 cases of double voting and he has yet to file a case of voter impersonation fraud,” Carmichael said. “The voter ID requirement is burdensome to every Kansan, yet he has yet to show us a single case.”

Read the full story at http://cjonline.com/news/local/2017-01-18/topeka-lawmaker-asks-kobach-investigate-voters-he-believes-registered-under

“He’s one of the smartest guys in this Legislature,” said Rep. John Carmichael, a liberal Wichita Democrat. “He’s a fair man.”

Read the full story at http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2017/jan/16/new-kansas-house-speaker-getting-good-marks-loose-/