WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas regulation designed to permit voters to solid their ballots at any polling place of their county, as a substitute of simply their assigned voting precinct, will not be carried out till 2023 due to bureaucratic delays.
Passed in 2019, the regulation directed Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab to jot down the principles and rules to implement it, however with no deadlines on when he needed to act, The Wichita Eagle reports.
Officers in Sedgwick County, who championed the measure by way of the legislative course of, had hoped to have the principles in place for the 2020 election cycle. However they’re solely now developing for approval by the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Guidelines and Laws.
“That’s not good,” stated Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudeau, a Wichita Democrat who sponsored the measure. “That sort of defeats the entire function.”
She stated each election she hears from constituents who work at plane crops south of town and couldn’t make it again to northeast Wichita earlier than the polls shut.
Schwab’s workplace declined to remark earlier than the rules are thought of at a gathering. Schwab beforehand has advised The Eagle that he had a gaggle working to jot down the rules as quickly as doable. Nevertheless it’s difficult by cybersecurity points and since state guidelines have to use to all people, not simply tech-savvy counties.
