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March 7, 2024 | By: AP
A deep split among Republican lawmakers in Kansas doomed proposals from election conspiracy promoters to upend how the state conducts elections and also sank an effort with broader GOP support to shorten the time voters have to return mail ballots.
The State Senate rejected a bill that would have banned remote ballot drops boxes and, starting next year, barred local election officials from using electronic machines to count ballots. Republican senators added those provisions during a debate to a bill that would have eliminated the three days after Election Day that Kansas voters have to return mail ballots to local election officials.
Many Republicans argue that the grace period undermines confidence in the state’s election results, though there’s no evidence of significant problems from the policy.
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