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Kris Kobach is getting desperate. In a column last week for Breitbart, the Kansas Secretary of State that voter fraud tipped the scales in the election last year in New Hampshire.

The evidence?

Anyone who registered to vote on Election Day with another state鈥檚 drivers鈥� license and didn鈥檛 get a New Hampshire license within 60 days was an illegitimate voter and, according to Kobach鈥檚 apparently psychic powers, most likely a Democrat!

Registering to vote and casting a ballot in New Hampshire while having a driver鈥檚 license from another state is legal. In fact, the New Hampshire Supreme Court in 2015, finding that registered voters do not have to get a New Hampshire license within 60 days.

It appears that the vice-chair of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity does not understand the election laws of New Hampshire, where his commission will be on Tuesday.

Many people, for various reasons, choose not to go to the DMV to get a new license upon moving to a new state, most commonly, college students from out-of-state who live on campus and don鈥檛 drive. Unsurprisingly, New Hampshire voters who have out-of-state licenses live . But according to Kobach, such voters committed fraud. Besides Kobach鈥檚 own egregious and badly flawed argument, there are of taking place .

We have seen similarly specious arguments from other purveyors of the voter fraud myth. For example, Donald Trump has being registered to vote in more than one state with voter fraud. Kobach was once in trouble for claiming a dead voter had cast a ballot, despite the fact he was .

Kobach鈥檚 decision to write as a paid columnist for Breitbart, which Bannon called 鈥�,鈥� is raising questions of its own: George W. Bush鈥檚 ethics lawyer Richard Palmer The Huffington Post that Kobach could be in violation of federal conflict of interest statutes by 鈥済etting paid by somebody to write about your official duties.鈥�

Naturally, Kobach has stacked the panel of witnesses for his commission鈥檚 with fellow voter fraud conspiracy theorists, including Robert Popper, John Lott, Ken Block, Donald Palmer, and Hans von Spakovsky, to testify to the commission.

Popper, the director of Judicial Watch鈥檚 Election Integrity Project, has and counties unless they purged their voter rolls of supposedly ineligible voters. Advocates that the move targeted communities of color. Lott has a record of 鈥溾�� about the 2008 Minnesota Senate race, erroneously blaming voter fraud for the Republican incumbent鈥檚 defeat.

Block, for his part, recently authored a on people voting in more than one state for the Government Accountability Institute, an organization founded by , which relied on a consumer database to suggest that there were over 8,000 cases of duplicate voting in the last election. Palmer, the former Virginia State Board of Elections secretary, similarly tried to hunt for supposed duplicate voting. Instead he ended up mistakenly sending a notification that wrongly claimed that they were registered to vote elsewhere. He blamed it on an 鈥渁dministrative error.鈥�

Von Spakovsky, who is also a member of the commission, , particularly the rights of . He regularly cites a 2010 Missouri State House election as proof that voting by noncitizens is rampant in elections, claiming that it was decided by votes 鈥渃ast illegally by citizens of Somalia.鈥� However, a court any evidence of such misconduct. His employer, the Heritage Foundation, once to find a significant amount of cases of voter impersonation.

Incidentally, there are more people on Kobach鈥檚 commission than people the Kansas secretary of state has of voter fraud.

As the Lawyers鈥� Committee for Civil Rights Under Law has also , all of the people testifying at the meeting are white men, despite the fact that election irregularities and abuses (and the voter suppression measures backed by Kobach) disproportionately affect people of color.

But Kobach鈥檚 problems don鈥檛 end there. It was recently that members of the commission have been using their personal email addresses for official duties, a potential violation of the Presidential Records Act that raises further questions about the commission鈥檚 transparency.

A federal judge recently Kobach for failing to comply with federal disclosure laws, which the commission鈥檚 lawyer downplayed as an 鈥渉onest misunderstanding.鈥� Back in June, Kobach offered a similar explanation in a lawsuit with the 老澳门开奖结果 where he was sanctioned and about a document he brought to a meeting with Trump, dismissing his wrongdoing as another 鈥渕isunderstanding.鈥�

Of course, Kobach has , all as part of his quest to justify voter suppression. It鈥檚 dirty work, but someone like Kobach is more than eager to do it.