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's office in Lawrence, Kansas, to renew his driver's license. And while he was there, he availed himself

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

in fact, registered to vote, but he had not. The Department of Vehicles did not inform him that

Kansas had recently passed a law which required documentary proof of citizenship in order to register to vote.

So Fish got a letter in the mail saying that his registration application was incomplete

and he had to provide proof of citizenship, which is way harder than it might seem in a

country in which there are absolutely zero other reasons to ever need documentary proof of your citizenship.

Couldn't find his birth certificate.

When he attempted to replace his birth certificate from his place of birth, as he wasn't born in Kansas,

he ran into another problem.

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

So two years and an entire election cycle later,

Fish finally found his birth certificate and a safe that belonged to his late mother. The Secretary

of State in Kansas at the time, Chris Kobach had championed a law that would require people

who register to vote to provide documentary proof of citizenship. Now, again, I just want to

remind you, I travel a ton. You have to have a passport if you travel. If you don't travel a ton,

there's virtually no reason to ever need these documents. So the things, Kansas, the court was called

the Safe Act, the Secure and Fair Election act. I love the way they name these things.

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

from registering to vote. You want to guess? By the way, that 30,000 included Wayne Fish,

because he was one of the plaintiffs in the suit that got the law overturned. But of those 30,000, how many you think were non-citizens? According to the judge's ruling, the Kansas Secretary of State's office presented a spreadsheet. These are the people who made the law. They presented a spreadsheet of all the names of the non-citizens who attempted to register to vote between 2013 and 2016.

Take a guess. Come on. Take a guess. How many names are on that spreadsheet?

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