To the editor:

If the state is unwilling to follow the straightforward solution of properly funding and overseeing the Department for Children and Families and its subcontractors, I have an alternative plan that solves more than one problem: As part of intake into foster care, all children are automatically registered to vote.

This would bring the full resources that Kris Kobach and his allies have used in the past combined with Trump’s voter fraud commission and put the effort toward a secondary, yet more meaningful purpose of finding lost foster children.

The beauty of this plan is that the state now has real numbers they can use in their voter fraud arguments. As all children in foster care are under 18, they would all be de facto fraudulent registrants. The state clearly knows how many foster children they have in the program, so they have at least that much voter fraud left to pursue. They would have real, hard numbers corroborated by multiple agencies. It would be great PR for the voter fraud commission; not only did they actually catch fraudsters, they found foster children in the process.

It also wouldn’t matter that the voter fraud being eliminated was actually a contrivance of the state, since that hasn’t mattered in their pursuit so far.

Should this plan fail, we can always remind Topeka that foster children all receive complete state-paid health care. They’re not just fraudsters; they are health care freeloaders as well. I bet they’d be tracked down quickly.