A crowd clamored today at the Kansas Statehouse to see the state’s suffragist icons and family members memorialized in paint. Gov. Laura Kelly marked the day as an occasion to celebrate “bold, visionary, badass” women.
Kansas civic groups are resuming voter registration efforts after a three-year-pause due to a law that made it a felony to “represent oneself as an election official.”
The Kansas Supreme Court has revived a challenge to a state law that caused advocacy groups to cancel voter registration drives.
Kansas AG Kris Kobach made his case Friday that voting rights should not be given the same protection as other constitutional rights, hoping to sway the court over to his side in the latest twist of a long-lasting legal battle over 2021 election laws.
Kansas Supreme Court justices raised concerns Wednesday about the “chilling” effect a 2021 law could have on League of Women Voters volunteers and others who participate in voter registration drives.
A judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of 2021 election mandates passed by the Kansas Legislature. Voter rights groups have filed an appeal.
Voting rights attorneys battled Thursday in the Kansas Court of Appeals over the merits of a 2021 law that threatens felony prosecution for any activity that could be mistaken as the work of an election official.
Republicans and Democrats along with a voter advocacy group introduced 3 competing redistricting maps outlining new boundaries for the 40 Kansas Senate districts in response to population shifts during the past decade.
Nearly every state senator has signed on to a bill establishing a permanent memorial commemorating the Kansas suffragist movement in the state Capitol.
After a 2021 legislative session packed with election proposals, Kansas officials and advocacy groups again are looking at both election integrity and accessibility issues.
