Kansas Election Law Stays Losing Amid 2024 Voter Registration Drives

This argument was always kinda sketchy . . . 

Locals claimed that vague law threatened their right to register voters . . .Which kinda tacitly admits that some tactics are open to "interpretation" and not completely above board. 

Either way . . . 

The legal showdown didn't last long and now it looks like the new rules are on their way out.

Check-it . . .

Groups challenging the law argue it’s so vague that volunteers who register voters could face criminal charges if someone mistakenly believes they are election officials, even if those volunteers are clear that they aren’t verbally, in writing or on signs. State officials have scoffed at that argument, but groups curtailed their activities, including one involved in the lawsuit, Loud Light, which seeks to register young people.

“We are fired up and ready to register thousands of young Kansans to vote again,” Davis Hammet, Loud Light’s president, said in a statement Wednesday, describing the law as a ”voter registration suppression scheme.”

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