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TexasTowelie

(117,467 posts) Sat Apr 3, 2021, 04:06 AM Apr 2021

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

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

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'Voter suppression': Kansas lawmakers advance changes to take control of elections (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2021 OP

What's the purpose of having elections . .. Lovie777 Apr 2021 #1

+1000 Rhiannon12866 Apr 2021 #2

I think it will all get overturned ... Maxheader Apr 2021 #3

One of the measures would bar the Governor and courts from altering election laws. KS Toronado Apr 2021 #4

Lovie777

(15,205 posts)

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

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Apr 3, 2021, 05:24 AM

Apr 2021

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

(224,082 posts)

2. +1000

Reply to Lovie777 (Reply #1)

Sat Apr 3, 2021, 06:19 AM

Apr 2021

Maxheader

(4,399 posts)

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

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Apr 3, 2021, 07:13 AM

Apr 2021

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

(19,700 posts)

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

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Apr 3, 2021, 09:37 AM

Apr 2021

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"

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