The Kansas Senate voted yesterday, February 4th, to pass a bill eliminating the mail processing window for mail-in ballots, which, according to the ACLU, would silence thousands of rural, disabled, and elderly Kansas voters. A hearing scheduled for tomorrow for the House to consider a duplicate measure, House Bill 20-17, was removed from the calendar. The Bill would eliminate the 3-day window for mail ballot processing.
The ACLU of Kansas says the measure would severely weaken Kansans’ voices by punishing eligible Kansas voters for the processing logistics of the Federal Postal Service. They say the bill ignores the reality that everyday Kansans understand…that the mail takes time, especially in rural parts of the state.
The ACLU is calling on every member of the Kansas House to be a voice for the voters who aren’t in the capitol building this week and stop the bill from being sent to the Governor. They say that lawmakers were not sent to the legislature by Kansas voters to attack the very democracy that got them there.
