Francis Wilkinson, Columnist

Kris Kobach's Spectacular Voter-Fraud Failure Is on Trial

Wild goose chases, phony accusations, imaginary threats: Nice work if you're Kansas's secretary of state.

March 9, 2018 at 8:00 AM EST

Francis Wilkinson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering US politics and policy. Previously, he was executive editor for the Week and a writer for Rolling Stone.

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For a public employee with a full-time job, Kris Kobach has an enviable amount of free time.

Elected Kansas secretary of state in 2010, he traveled the country advising right-wing politicians on the best ways to chase undocumented immigrants from their states. After the 2016 election of President Donald Trump, Kobach kept his day job in Kansas while leading Trump’s voter-fraud commission, a political Hindenburg that self-combusted in January after having conspicuously compiled no evidence whatsoever to justify its existence.

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