Kansas Just Created a Second Class of Voters Who Won’t Be Allowed to Cast Ballots in Some Elections! Kris Kobach, the Secretary of State for Kansas, has decided to move forward with his two-tiered voting system, reports Right Wing Watch. Kobach’s byzantine plan is a massive headache for anyone trying to understand how it works, and is as inelegant as it is bureaucratic — which is par for the course when dealing with Republicans. By Kobach’s new system, those citizens who registered with a federal voter registration form but didn’t meet the state’s strict citizen definition would still be allowed to vote in federal elections, but barred from voting in state elections. At time he proposed it, Kobach said that it was a “contingency plan”, in the event that the state lost a lawsuit that sought to require “the federal form used in Kansas to include the state’s proof-of-citizenship requirement.” Kobach has since won that lawsuit, but the decision has nevertheless been stayed via appeal, forcing Kobach to go ahead with the two-tiered system that he had planned. Kobach’s system is a complicated one that appears to require two different forms — a state and a federal form. The federal form is used as a “proof-of-citizenship” requirement, although only one requires citizenship. More reading:
Posted on: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 08:29:33 +0000
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