Kansas Supreme Court Order Keeps Grace Period for Mail Ballots in Place for Primary

Kansas Supreme Court declines to take emergency appeal of election law

Kansas Supreme Court refuses to take emergency appeal of lower court decisions preserving — pending trial — 3-day grace period for mail-in advance ballots.

Kansas Supreme Court Rejects Effort to Enforce Election Day Mail Ballot Deadline in 5-2 Vote – Late Ballots Will Be Counted Days After the Election * The Gateway Pundit * by Jim Hᴏft

Credit: Wikimedia Commons In a 5-2 decision Thursday, the Kansas Supreme Court declined to intervene and restore the state’s new strict mail-ballot deadline, leaving in place a lower court order that allows mailed ballots received up to three days after Election Day to be counted. The ruling is a major blow to election integrity efforts by Republican Secretary of State Scott Schwab and Attorney General Kris Kobach just days before the August 4 p…

Kansas Supreme Court order keeps grace period for mail ballots in place for primary

The majority wrote that the court denying Secretary of State Scott Schwab’s motions “expressly without comment on the merits of the appeal.”

Justices decline bringing election three-day grace period lawsuit to the Kansas Supreme Court

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Kansas Supreme Court justices have released an order Thursday tied to a controversial election law. Lisa Taylor, a spokeswoman for the Kansas Supreme Court, announced in a press rel…

Kansas Appeals Court Keeps 3-Day Mail-Ballot Grace Period

Kansas voters can still use the three-day mail-ballot grace period before the primary as the state’s legal challenge continues.

UPDATED: Three-day grace period remains in place following Supreme Court ruling

(Updated to include comment from secretary of state) The grace period for advance mail ballots to arrive at election offices within three days of the polls closing remained intact Thursday after the Kansas Supreme Court decided against taking up an emergency appeal of a lower-court ruling. A split Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against taking up the secretary of state's request for a stay of a lower-court ruling that kept the three-day grace pe…