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Democracy demands participation, and the more engaged our citizenry, the healthier our civic culture will be. But with wide swaths of our friends and neighbors unable to participate, the health of that culture is at stake.

“There certainly were problems, including with the voting machines and things like that, but I have no reason to believe that there was orchestrated, or even unorchestrated, mischief,” said Micah Kubic, executive director of the ACLU of Kansas.

ACLU attorney Dale Ho said in an email: “It’s unfortunate, but fees like this are part of the price when you break the law.” “Once again, Kansas taxpayers are left holding the bag for Secretary Kobach’s misdeeds.”

Kansas ACLU’s Legal Director Lauren Bond described potential issues the hotline could be used for.

The ACLU of Kansas is launching an election hotline it believes will help safeguard the voting process in light of efforts to restrict voter registration in the state.

News articles that feature the ACLU of Kansas' voting rights effort in the state.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s deeply flawed and shoddily implemented “Crosscheck” program illegally exposed the sensitive personal data – including Social Security numbers and signatures -- of nearly 1,000 Kansas voters, an ACLU of Kansas lawsuit filed today in U.S. District Court said.

Federal Judge Robinson ruled that the state's "proof of citizenship" law, where citizens are forced to produce a birth certificate or passport or other onerous document, is a violation of federal law.