Conservative Institute By Jonah Adams
Kansas Republicans pushed two election bills through both chambers on Thursday, advancing measures that would cross-reference voter rolls against a federal immigration database and could eliminate no-excuse mail-in voting under certain judicial conditions.
The package now heads to the governor’s desk, where a veto remains a real possibility.
The Kansas House passed HB 2437 by a vote of 80-43 and HB 2569 by a vote of 78-45. The Senate cleared both bills 28-12. Both votes fell just short of the two-thirds majority required to override a gubernatorial veto, Kansas Reflector reported.
What the bills actually do
HB 2437, dubbed the SAVE Kansas Act, is the more straightforward of the two. It deputizes the Secretary of State to cross-reference driver’s license records and state voter rolls against the federal SAVE database twice a year. It also:
- Restricts voter registration websites to .gov domains or state-approved sites
- Requires county elections officials to remove individuals from voter rolls when a funeral home publishes that person’s obituary…
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