US EditionKansas has among the shortest windows for voting by mail in the US. It will get shorter next year
- Kansas legislators shortened the mail voting period by eliminating a grace period for returning ballots, citing U.S. Postal Service issues as justification for the change.
- The GOP supermajority Legislature overrode Governor Laura Kelly's veto with a vote of 30-10 in the Senate and 84-41 in the House.
- Kansas must wait 20 days to send out mail ballots, which will be one of the shortest voting windows in the U.S. Starting in 2026, with only Colorado and Iowa having shorter periods.
- Critics, including Rabbi Moti Rieber of Kansas InterFaith Action, labeled the change as a project of voter suppression, stating it would make voting harder.
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Kansas has among the shortest windows for voting by mail in the US. It will get shorter next year
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican legislators in Kansas on Tuesday shrunk what already was among the nation's shortest windows for voting by mail, arguing that problems with the U.S. Postal Service's handling of ballots required the move. Critics called it…
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ACLU of KansasKansas to eliminate 3-day grace period for mail-in ballots after GOP overrides Gov. Kelly
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