Democratic House member Jim Ward (D-Wichita) told a crowd in Salina that the practice of disenfranchising voters as conducted by Secretary of State Kobach seemed as though it was the plot of a “political conspiracy theory film”, but went on to say, “unfortunately for us, it's real.”
Today, in a meeting done outside of the normal legislative process, according to Senator Vicki Schmidt (R-Topeka), The Kansas Secretary of State's office enacted a rule that effectively disenfranchises roughly 18,000 Kansans. Those Kansans will now discover that they cannot vote by direct ballot, but they can only vote provisionally, and any votes cast for state & local races will be thrown away.
The crime these voters have committed? They registered via the Federal Motor Voter form at their DMV, a form that, according to Secretary of State Kobach, isn’t good enough for the state of Kansas.
