Sign Up You agree to receive occasional updates and special offers for The New York Times's products and services. In his other job as Kansas’s secretary of state, Mr. Kobach has made a career of detecting and prosecuting a supposed national fraud epidemic. His efforts have yielded a total of nine convictions, mostly of people voting in two states. That hasn’t deterred Mr. Kobach or his fellow travelers, who have been on their quixotic crusade for years. It’s low turnout — in a good year, nearly half of all eligible American citizens fail to vote.

Source: New York Times July 03, 2017 23:37 UTC