Secretary of State Kris Kobach warned Kansas lawmakers last year that he knew of at least 18 suspected cases of double voting in recent elections.
Wait, make that 100 cases!
Kobach threw out these wild claims as he successfully pressed the Legislature to make him the only secretary of state in the nation with the power to prosecute in these matters.
It was all part of Kobach’s continued loathsome attacks on U.S. immigration policy. He knew he could score political points with many Kansans by promising to stop “illegal” voters from canceling out the votes of red-blooded Americans.
But now Kobach has been exposed as a big fraud on the issue of voter fraud, which studies have found to be almost nonexistent in America.
Since the law took effect July 1, 2015, the publicity-seeking Kobach had filed a puny half-dozen cases by early May.
One case against an older Johnson County woman totally embarrassed the usually cocksure Kobach. He had to meekly dismiss it days before it was to go to trial in April.
In the four cases he has won, Kobach went after men 60 years or older who double-voted. None showed any intent to game the system. All were convicted of misdemeanors and paid modest fines.