Why? As Secretary Kobach testified on behalf of SB 63, voter fraud is a real problem but is rarely prosecuted because locals focus on other crime… Kobach also lamented a lack of appetite for handing down serious penalties for voting crimes. He noted that of the 11 double-voting violations his office has referred for prosecution, only two have been adjudicated and those resulted in diversion — essentially a warning that keeps an offender’s criminal record clean. “So, 11 cases, all slam dunks, all should have been convictions,” Kobach said. “But instead we have no convictions, no penalties, no deterrence.” And just like that, actual voter fraud becomes ‘nonexistent.’