Kobach in the KC Star:
Real double voting occurs when a person intentionally votes twice in two different jurisdictions. And it happens with alarming regularity. Indeed, it appears that quite a few non-Kansans saw the media reports about Kansas’ close races for governor and senator last November, and they decided to cast ballots in both Kansas and their states of residence.
Rose similarly brushes aside the problem of aliens voting, dismissing it as unlikely. Again the facts tell a different story. For example, about 50 voted in a referendum in Seward County, Kan., in 1997. Yet, an even bigger problem is legal aliens voting. In 2014, a study by three professors at Old Dominion University and George Mason University estimated that 6.4 percent of aliens voted in the 2008 presidential election, and 2.2 percent voted in the 2010 midterm elections.
That works out to hundreds of thousands of votes, potentially skewing the outcomes of close races across the country. But even a small number would be unacceptable. Every time an alien votes, it effectively cancels out the vote of a U.S. citizen. That’s why I pushed for proof of citizenship to register in Kansas.
Sigh.