Kris Kobach’s ID-at-polls plan moves closer to reality

Attention, Kansas voters: Be sure to never lose your ID during election season. Secretary of State Kris Kobach‘s big dream of requiring Kansas voters to show photo identification at the polls, and first-time registrants to prove citizenship, is sprinting toward reality.

The Associated Press reports that the Kansas House Elections Committee is poised for a vote on the measure by the end of next week. And the chairman, Olathe Republican Scott Schwab, says it has enough backers to earn the committee’s endorsement. See, Kobach isn’t demanding ID and proof of citizenship just from brown people … at the polls, anyway. Hanging around outside the Home Depot is another matter.