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Last year, the polling location was changed to the community room at the Kansas City, Kansas South Patrol police station. Some voters in the district expressed their concern that casting their votes at a police station was intimidating to some voters and kept others from turning out to vote.
Kansas residents could register and cast a provisional ballot on Election Day under Senate Bill 43, and voters would no longer have to be registered 21 days before the election to participate.
“It’s the fact that this is a government entity organization and they’ve created a space that’s explicitly for the public to give feedback to public officials... Any time when you’re closing a public forum or limiting speech within a public forum, there’s going to be implications there," Bonds said.
After attempting to meet with Cox several times about opening additional polling places, the American Civil Liberties Union Kansas filed a lawsuit before the election on behalf of the League of United Latin American Citizens and Rangel-Lopez.
A Dodge City high school student who carried a torch amid voting access uproar last fall says election officials undermine democracy and warrant proposed federal guidance.
The ACLU said Kobach’s reckless maintenance of the system makes him personally liable, as well as the state of Kansas.
