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Aug 5, 2022

Kansas secretary of state refuses to provide provisional ballot records despite court ruling

Secretary of State Scott Schwab is refusing to turn over provisional ballot records in advance of the primary election, despite an appeals court ruling that says he is violating state open records law.

A voter fills out an advance ballot on July 29, 2022, at the Shawnee County Elections Office. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)

Jul 20, 2022

Anti-abortion groups make dubious claims as Kansas amendment vote nears

Claims made by campaigns for and against a constitutional amendment undoing Kansans’ right to an abortion look like descriptions of two different realities.

Jul 19, 2022

Sharon Brett, Legal Director of the Kansas ACLU, discusses their work to protect your rights

Sharon Brett, Legal Director of the Kansas American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), discusses their work with Radio Active Magazine regular Craig Lubow.

Jul 17, 2022

Atchison County, Kansas, clerk again accepting voter registrations

Voters in Atchison, Kansas, will once again be able to register to vote in next month’s primary election. “The fact that folks were going to be denied the ability to vote in that is a really serious problem...

Jul 15, 2022

Kansas Will Be the First State to Vote on Abortion Rights, Post Roe v. Wade Reversal

“We shouldn’t be amending the constitution to restrict peoples’ rights,” ACLU of Kansas Executive Director Micah Kubic says. “It’s inconsistent with our values as Americans and deeply dangerous.”

Jul 12, 2022

With abortion rights at stake across U.S. and Kansas, whose religious freedom do we value?

As a civil rights attorney, I believe deeply in the right of people to practice their religion. But I believe just as deeply in the right of people to live free from any government entanglement with...

Rally at capitol featuring sign that reads, "Keep abortion legal"