Letter to the editor: Desperadoes

Lawrence Journal-World opinion section

To the editor:

Congrats to Kris Kobach for his second voter fraud conviction. Now I can sleep at night, knowing that people who are moving to Colorado won’t even think about voting in Kansas. Or for that matter, they probably won’t think about moving back to Kansas either. I sure wouldn’t, if I had been given such a nasty little parting gift.

Kobach says that by going after voter fraud he is demonstrating to Kansans that their vote “absolutely matters.” Really? There is a whole generation of 20-somethings who are convinced that their vote doesn’t matter. They don’t vote or become politically engaged. Is this going to change their minds?

Somehow, I think a secretary of state who was doing his job would worry more about the people who don’t vote than the handful of illegitimate voters who do. But that’s just me. So, keep it up, Mr. Kobach. Go after those double-votin’ desperadoes. Put on your cowboy hat and chase them to the ends of the earth! And maybe … don’t come back?