Kansas Democrats to introduce voting rights bill at special session in Topeka

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By Dion Lefler
The Wichita Eagle

On the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Kansas Democrats unveiled a bill they’ll introduce to force the issue of voting rights into next week’s special legislative session in Topeka.

Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudeau and Rep. Jim Ward, both Wichita Democrats, said they are going to force the Legislature to take action – one way or another – on changing new proof-of-citizenship requirements that have approximately 15,000 prospective Kansas voters waiting to find out if they’ll be able to cast a ballot.

The bill would essentially add a line to the existing voter-registration form allowing Kansans to prove their U.S. citizenship by swearing out an affidavit. At present, the law requires prospective voters to provide document proof, such as a birth certificate or passport.

The revised voter registration form would warn prospective voters that swearing a false statement of citizenship would be perjury and could lead to felony prosecution ...

http://www.kansas.com/2013/08/29/2970928/kansas-democrats-to-introduce.html

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1. Oletha! You do so ROCK!

Now other than Oletha it will probably actually be more like, "Ahh shucks you guys are being kinda mean and we are kinda not liking it. Could you maybe think about not doing ALL of the mean things, maybe if you could only cut out 1/2 of the people from voter registration? Please? We promise we will vote for everything else you spew into our laps and give interviews saying how really really cool you are."

We have a few with guts but for the most part they walk around with their heads down like beaten dogs, wagging their tails hoping for just a little approval from their mean masters. If you want to know why Kansas is the way it is just look up the word cowardice. I have seen it in person and recognize it in 98% of our elected Dems, as few as they are they are a bunch of cowards. If we can't manage a win over Brownback we should all be shunned even more than now. I am SO disgusted.