Maybe it’s projection yet again: conservative nutbars like Kobach are so entranced with the idea of committing election election fraud themselves that they can’t believe everyone else isn’t doing it too.
Kobach is pretty loosey goosey with the integrity
Thanks Kate, I think you coined a new acronym Loosey Goosey Integrity.
For example we could use LGI as an index:
Which candidate has the highest LGI, Trump or Kobach?
But what we do know is that for someone keen on fabricating voter fraud by scapegoating undocumented immigrants, Kobach is pretty loosey goosey with the integrity of his own election.
Like many words, the etymology of loosey-goosey (it is a hyphenate) isn’t entirely clear. In Chicken Little retellings the characters usually have rhyming names (Cockey-Lockey, Turkey-Lurkey): one frequently occurring character is Goosey Loosey. There is an early XXth C English idiom, Loose as a goose, meaning unusually relaxed (or relaxed to the point of lacking structure). Under this theory, loosey-goosey is a rhyming structure. Merriam-Webster holds the first American usage is 1964.
Ms Riga qualifies the award-winner’s relaxed attitude to vote-counts as among those concerned about (non-existent) voter fraud. I hold the qualification is unnecessary: his relaxed attitude about vote-counting is noteworthy in any collection of individuals except those interested in stealing elections.
@lastroth as to which of that pair has the highest LGI index, I’d say it’s indeterminate. The answer depends on who is nearest to facing election.
I just want to hear political pundits discuss the LGI index along with the favorables/unfavorables.
I could swear I heard a clip of him yesterday claiming that yes he would recuse himself from the recount - and then throwing shade at Colyer of questioning the integrity of the election. Seriously.
Meanwhile a day or two before the primary I could swear that I read a headline claiming that illigeal immigrants voting Could change the outcome of the election (setting up grounds to challenge if he came on the low end of the vote count) - that is he was questioning the integrity of the election before people voted. Seriously.
“It’s not who votes that counts, it’s who counts the votes”
Attributed to Stalin but since he never ran in any elections, I sincerely doubt it is his quote.
1964? They’re going to tell me I never heard of loosey-goosey before I was 16?
Its a dead heat.
Well, aside from being Duke of the Week, Kobach is clearly also the Duke of Dubious Integrity.
Is this his first Duke? It is hard to believe that he has not been rewarded previously for some of his other big-time actions like when he insisted on defending his voter ID law rather than letting the Kansas AG to the job. He lost big time. What about his performance on the Presidents Voter Fraud Commission, another award-winning performance.
If he has won in the past the citation should indicate the multiple wins so readers can fully appreciate his contributions. If he has not won on other occasions he should have.
I report, you decide 
Dukes became weekly only recently, and I’m pretty sure it started after Kobach showed the world just what sort of litigator he is(n’t).
I just hope the weekly Dukes aren’t supplanting the annual ones. Kobach, even in the trump era, deserves more recognition.
For that last sentence, Kate Riga is my writer of the week.
In the summer of that year, I attended a Franciscan retreat with some other young nuns. In his flowing robes, our heavily built friar retreat-master glided across the sacristy, his knotted-cord cincture resting on his paunch. Against our rule of silence, my pew-mate murmured, “Loose as a goose.”
How is it possible that Chris Collins didn’t win this week?
She is hilarious.
Kris Kobach wins “Duke of the Week”. Welp, couldn’t happen to a more deserving fellow. in my humble opinion.
Kris Kobach Is Our Duke Of The Week
Kris Kobach Is Our Duke Douche of the Week Century