Post by Logan on Jul 7, 2016 3:53:13 GMT -6
Topeka — Civil rights groups demanded Tuesday in an open letter that Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach rescind his instructions to local election officials to throw out votes cast in upcoming local and state races by tens of thousands of people who registered at motor vehicle offices without providing proof of U.S. citizenship.
The executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas, Micah Kubic, says Kobach is "deliberately creating chaos" for voters and "acting out of petulance."
At issue is an email sent from Kobach's office to county election officials last month outlining the state's plans for implementing a two-tiered election system in the wake of a federal court order requiring Kansas to allow such voters to cast provisional ballots in the federal race. Kobach wants to allow election officials to throw out any provisional ballots in which votes were cast in state and local races and count only votes cast for president and U.S. Senate and House races.
The instructions come despite Shawnee County District Judge Franklin Theis finding in January that "no authority exists in the Kansas Secretary of State to encumber the voting process."
Read more: www2.ljworld.com/news/2016/jul/05/aclu-kobach-deliberately-creating-voter-chaos-kans/
The executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas, Micah Kubic, says Kobach is "deliberately creating chaos" for voters and "acting out of petulance."
At issue is an email sent from Kobach's office to county election officials last month outlining the state's plans for implementing a two-tiered election system in the wake of a federal court order requiring Kansas to allow such voters to cast provisional ballots in the federal race. Kobach wants to allow election officials to throw out any provisional ballots in which votes were cast in state and local races and count only votes cast for president and U.S. Senate and House races.
The instructions come despite Shawnee County District Judge Franklin Theis finding in January that "no authority exists in the Kansas Secretary of State to encumber the voting process."
Read more: www2.ljworld.com/news/2016/jul/05/aclu-kobach-deliberately-creating-voter-chaos-kans/