ACLU: Two-thirds of new Kansas voter registrations on hold

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ACLU: Two-thirds of new Kansas voter registrations on hold


By ROXANA HEGEMAN at AP

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ce30cd679dd94ebebc6e0500e1d6efd1/aclu-two-thirds-new-kansas-voter-registrations-hold

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Voting rolls in Kansas are in "chaos" because of the state's proof-of-citizenship requirements, the American Civil Liberties Union has argued in a court document, noting that about two-thirds of new voter registration applications submitted during a three-week period in February are on hold.

Kansas is fending off multiple legal challenges from voting rights activists, and just months before the state's August primary, the status of the "dual registration" system remains unclear. Federal judges in separate voter-registration lawsuits unfolding in Kansas and Washington, D.C., could rule at any time. There's also greater urgency because registrations typically surge during an election year.

Kansas is one of four states, along with Georgia, Alabama and Arizona, to require documentary proof of citizenship — such as a birth certificate, passport or naturalization papers — to register to vote. Under Kansas' challenged system, voters who registered using a federal form, which hadn't required proof of U.S. citizenship, could only vote in federal races and not in state or local races. Kansas says it will keep the dual voting system in place for upcoming elections if the courts allow its residents to register to vote either with a federal form or at motor vehicle offices without providing proof of citizenship.

The following things were revealed in various court filings last week:




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[surrealAmerican]

1. This is what happens when you put Republicans in charge of a state.

The whole purpose of restrictive voting rules is to disenfranchise as many voters as possible. It looks like they got what they wanted.

[Stevepol]

2. Meanwhile, the guv, Brownblack,

is sitting in his mansion waiting with great anticipation for the trickle down to start trickling in response to his tax cuts for the job-creators and his big increase in the sales tax, aimed at making sure the po' folks don't get up off their knees or out of the po' house.

Despite the guv's prayers and pleas to the Almighty,

the trickle ain't happening.

It never has.

It never will.

Whole lot of starviin going on in KS.