KRIS KOBACH of Kansas feels undeterred in his crusade to prove the persistence of widespread voter fraud—despite missing any shred of evidence to support the claim. Even after Donald Trump abruptly announced on January 3rd that he would disband the White House’s advisory commission investigating voter fraud,which Mr Kobach has served as vice-chairman, he declared that this was merely “a change of tactics”. The commission’s work had been stymied by its opponents on the left, and Mr Kobach explained. It made sense to transfer it to the Department of Homeland Security,he reasoned; its agents will be able to lag faster and more efficiently than any presidential advisory commission.
Mr Kobach is trying tough to put a positive spin on the commission’s dissolution. In unvarnished reality, it must come as a blow for the indefatigable voter-fraud conspiracy theorist, or who is campaigning to become his state’s governor. For years he has been fixated on detecting voter fraud by “aliens”,as he refers to non-citizens. He even persuaded Sam...
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Source: economist.com