The ACLU of Kansas, El Centro, and community partners will gather to discuss how Johnson County can lead the way in ensuring language access at the polls.

Just last week this same body claimed we must subject the Supreme Court to partisan elections in order to hear from voters—and yet today they silence those same voters by passing SB 4 into law.

This is a blatant attack by the legislators on our justices, and it’s part of a decades-long pattern of politicians attempting to punish the judicial branch for issuing decisions on education and reproductive freedom that they disagree with."

“Attorney General Kris Kobach expressed last fall his deep yearning to politicize and usurp control from the Court. We should believe him when he says that his plan, made real in this proposed amendment, is retaliation against the Court for protecting reproductive freedom and education funding."

The Kansas Senate voted Tuesday to pass a bill eliminating the mail processing window for mail-in ballots, which would silence thousands of rural, disabled, and elderly Kansas voters.

A proposed bill that would eliminate the 3-day window for mail ballot processing would disenfranchise thousands of rural, disabled, and elderly Kansas voters.

The statewide, nonpartisan Election Protection program responding to voter issues in Kansas will enter its seventh year this election. 

A new report from the ACLU of Kansas finds that a shockingly large number of Kansans—nearly 85,000, or 1 in every 35 people in the state, are returning citizens who have completed sentences for past felonies and are eligible to register and vote under Kansas law.

The Board of Commissioners will hear testimony and consider a resolution introduced by Mayor Garner.  The resolution calls on Secretary of State Scott Schwab and Wyandotte County Election Commissioner Michael Abbott to provide better language access for voters through translated election materials.