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At a House Administration Committee hearing Thursday, Republicans repeatedly raised hypothetical specters of coordinated voter fraud while state election officials gently reiterated, again and again, that elections and voter registration rolls are already safe, secure, and accurate.
The Kansas legislature overrides governor’s veto of a bill that will make voter registration harder and voter purging easier.
Kansans are fighting back in court to block a new state law that invalidated transgender residents’ driver’s licenses and birth certificates, depriving them of their required voter ID just a few months before the state’s 2026 primary election.
We’ve been warning for months that President Donald Trump and the GOP are coming hard for mail voting — and this week saw a major development in the campaign.
This was the week when it became clear to anyone paying attention: The GOP’s drive to gerrymander districts in their favor — usually at the cost of minority representation — threatens the long-term fairness of elections.
In red states across the country, GOP lawmakers and officials took a range of steps to move forward with their gerrymanders. Together, the moves suggest that, even leaving the Supreme Court aside, Republicans have abandoned any remaining political or moral qualms about drawing maps that maximize their advantage — with potentially dire consequences for the future of fair elections.
Much of President Donald Trump’s anti-voting executive order has been blocked by judges. But it’s having an impact nonetheless — by encouraging and emboldening state-level Republicans to pursue its anti-democratic goals.
A federal court ruled that a Kansas law banning prefilled mail-in ballot applications is unconstitutional and violates the First Amendment.
A Kansas law that could disenfranchise thousands just for voting by mail is facing a new legal challenge.
The state of Kansas agreed to permanently stop enforcing a law that undermined the work of voter registration organizations by imposing criminal penalties on individuals whose actions could be construed as conduct that would be undertaken by an election official.
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