Kansas Democrats Ramping Up Election Monitoring
Kansas Democratic Party leaders said Wednesday that they’ll have a large number of lawyers and volunteers working Election Day, Nov. 8, to make sure all registered voters are allowed to cast ballots, including those who used a federal registration form that does not require showing proof of citizenship.
“This is not something that is necessarily new,” said former Rep. Paul Davis of Lawrence, one of the attorneys volunteering for the project. “But we are heightening our efforts, and I think there is more interest than ever in making sure that all people who are eligible to vote have the opportunity to vote and that their votes are going to be counted.”
Davis and other Democrats said the question of who is allowed to vote and which elections they can vote in has been clouded by a large number of state and federal lawsuits against Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach challenging the law he championed in 2011 that requires voters to show documentary proof of U.S. citizenship in order to register.
More: Kansas Democrats ramping up election monitoring / LJWorld.com