While giving him two more weeks to comply, a federal judge let Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach know that she would tolerate no further delays in carrying out her order to restore 18,000 Kansas residents to the voter rolls.
The ruling was the latest development in a lawsuit challenging Kansas’ policy of requiring people who register to vote at DMV offices to provide proof of citizenship.
U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson didn’t buy Kobach’s claim that compliance with her order would cause voter confusion and lead to “irreparable harm.”
And she disagreed that changing voter records in the system would burden county elections officials.
The process, she wrote, “is already terribly confusing for average citizens who simply wish to apply to register to vote when they apply for a driver’s license.”
