Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has filed three voter fraud cases he plans to prosecute, his office confirmed Tuesday.
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Kobach has spent his entire term trying to find as many cases of voter fraud as possible, and over the course of that time has found precisely three cases that he feels stand a chance at getting a conviction.
Kobach filed two cases in Johnson County and one in Sherman County on Friday, said Craig McCullah, the public information officer for the Secretary of State’s Office.
One case in Sherman County alleges a man voted in elections there in 2010, 2012 and 2014.
Regardless as to whether charges are filed in the remaining fifteen cases, this goes to show how exceedingly rare in-person voter fraud is, and how its effect on our elections is completely nonexistent. “Double voting is a serious crime”. “It undermines the equality of residents”.
None of the defendants immediately returned telephone messages.
A court date for both cases was set for December. 3.
Kobach said in an interview this summer that the cases would have to come by early next month, because of a statute of limitations.
Kobach had also hinted that he might pursue a prosecution in Sedgwick County.
But Kobach said he focused first on filing cases over 2010 incidents because state law prevents prosecutors from filing charges for most crimes after five years.
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The cases accuse Betty and Steven Gaedtke of voting without being lawfully registered to vote plus two counts of illegally filling out paperwork for an advance voting ballot, also misdemeanors.
