Kansas Court Fight For Voting Rights

Progressive perspective on summer legal drama ahead of midterms . . . Take a peek:

In the lawsuit, pro-voting organizations* are taking aim at a provision requiring local election officials to reject mail-in ballots for perceived mismatches between the signatures on the ballots and those in voters’ registration records . . . So far, state courts, including the Kansas Supreme Court, have largely sided with the pro-voting and civil rights organizations that brought the suit and have blocked some of the policies in the laws — including a vague provision that would make it a felony for an individual to knowingly “[r]epresent oneself as an election official.” But courts have also upheld some of the other policies.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

GOP suppression law targeting mail ballot signatures goes before Kansas judge