A “handful” of fraudulent votes is enough to steal a close election, a valid concern for Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who introduced the Secure and Fair Elections (SAFE) Act in 2011 to prevent voter fraud: Kobach said his concern is with the way voter fraud can impact close elections. “The question is, are there any close elections and the answer is, of course, yes. We have many close elections in Kansas. We had one primary on the Democrat side in 2012 which was a dead tie and the race had to be settled by a coin toss. We had another primary where it came down to eight votes. We had a case in 2006 where it came down to two votes in the general election. And these are all state legislative races I’m talking about, so these are significant offices, and if you have a race that comes down to two votes or eight votes, then just a handful of fraudulent ballots is enough to steal the election.”