'Voter suppression': Kansas lawmakers advance changes to take control of elections

[TexasTowelie]

TOPEKA -- Kansas lawmakers, following a trend in Republican-controlled statehouses nationwide, gave initial approval Wednesday to bills that would strip the executive and judicial branches of some authority over elections and make it more difficult to cast a ballot by mail.

One of the measures would bar the Governor and courts from altering election laws. The other limits who is permitted to return a mail-in ballot on behalf of another person and makes it a felony for an individual to return more than five mail-in ballots.

The changes were approved on a 28-12 vote, despite reports from Secretary of State Scott Schwab in January that Kansas had a “free and fair” election last year.

The Senate’s action is part of an impassioned national debate about voting rights.

Read more: https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/election/article250349886.html

[Lovie777]

1. What's the purpose of having elections . ..

if the controlling party of that state can without impunity overturn elections that they don't like and supersede the will of the people while installing their own party members who actually did not win.

Case in point - Missouri republican house overturned the will of the people concerning Medicare. Think about that. They overturned the majority on behalf of the minority.

That is not Democracy.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. +1000

[Maxheader]

3. I think it will all get overturned ...

Pos wingers in this country are trying to do like kansaas

did during the brown butt admin..tie up the courts with

constitutional violations, which placing restrictions on

voting access is...fuck the gop...

[KS Toronado]

4. One of the measures would bar the Governor and courts from altering election laws.

What's next? Bar the courts from making any decision that puts reQublicans in a bad light?
Maybe our Supreme Court should issue a statement...."Keep your nose out of our business"