When the White House accused the press of actively covering up millions of illegal votes cast in the 2016 election, they suggested a conversation with the country’s most reliable source for overblown fears about illegal voting. America, meet the not-so-illustrious Kris Kobach. While you might come to know him as a Trump fan and a talking head on national news shows, in Kansas we’ve long known the Secretary of State in a quite different capacity: As a questionable administrator of the state’s elections who has an unquenchable thirst for the power to prosecute those who dare run afoul of his enhanced registration and identification requirements for voting. He didn’t really make his case, despite appearances on both CNN and the Kobach-friendly Fox News. Oh, and he’s not so good at the record-keeping required by the office he runs. The Kansas Legislature granted Kobach the power to prosecute people who double voted, or failed to comply with voting laws. And after making so much hay about the issue, Kobach produced a total of nine cases worthy of bringing to court – in most cases elderly voters who misunderstood some of the laws.
This after Kobach argued ad nauseam about the threat to democracy and the infection of widespread voter fraud. Now, he’s been tapped by Team Trump to make the case that more than 3 million people voted illegally in an election that saw Trump victorious. It’s no surprise that a lack of evidence to support the claim didn’t stop Kobach from making a weak case to a national audience. Because the only thing Kobach likes more than power is the limelight.
There is no widespread voter fraud. It doesn’t exist in Kansas, or New Hampshire, and it likely doesn’t exist anywhere in America even close to the degree that warrants Kobach’s hysterical antics.
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