Good morning. It is Saturday, March the 21st. I'm Ali Velshi. In August of 2014, a man named

Wayne Fish went to a divisions of vehicle office in Lawrence, Kansas to renew his driver's license.

While he was there, he availed himself

of the opportunity to register to vote. He left the office that day, believing that he had,

in fact, registered to vote, but he had not. The division of vehicle employee did not inform him that

Kansas had recently passed a law which required documentary proof of citizenship to register

to vote. Fish received a letter in the mail saying his registration application was incomplete and that he

had to provide proof of citizenship, which is harder than it might seem in a country in which there

are absolutely zero other reasons to need documentary proof of citizenship.

He could not find his birth certificate.

When he attempted to obtain a replacement from his place of birth, he ran into another obstacle.

He was born on what was by then a decommissioned Air Force base in Illinois.

Two years and an entire election cycle later, Fish finally found his birth certificate

in a safe belonging to his late mother. The Secretary of State in Kansas at the time,

Chris Kobach, had championed a law that would require people who registered a vote to provide

documentary proof of citizenship. It was called the Safe, Secure, and Fair

Election Act. And in its brief lifespan, before a judge threw it out in 2018, it prevented 30,000

Kansansans from registering to vote. That number includes Wayne Fish, who was one of the plaintiffs

in the lawsuit that got the law overturned.

How many of those 30,000 were non-citizens attempting to vote?

The federal judge's ruling says the court was provided with a spreadsheet of 16 non-citizens

who attempted to register to vote between 2013 and 2016.

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