Records show Kansas election officials refused call to police gender markers on voter files
TOPEKA — A Kansas Republican Party officer called the Secretary of State’s Office in July to ask why a new state law that regulates gender markers wasn’t being applied to the voter registration of a transgender Democrat running for a Kansas House seat. Senior election officials disagreed with his interpretation of Senate Bill 244, the […]
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