Do you have a fundamental right to vote?
Bet your answer is yes we do have the right…..with the possible exception to the state of Kansas.
The Kansas Supreme Court has made a ruling that has many up in arms….
The Kansas Supreme Court offered a mixed bag in a ruling Friday that combined several challenges to a 2021 election law, siding with state officials on one provision, reviving challenges to others and offering the possibility that at least one will be halted before this year’s general election.
But it was the ballot signature verification measure’s majority opinion — which stated there is no right to vote enshrined in the Kansas Constitution’s Bill of Rights — that drew fiery dissent from three of the court’s seven justices.
The measure requires election officials to match the signatures on advance mail ballots to a person’s voter registration record. The state Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s dismissal of that lawsuit, but the majority rejected arguments from voting rights groups that the measure violates state constitutional voting rights.
In fact, Justice Caleb Stegall, writing for the majority, said that the dissenting justices wrongly accused the majority of ignoring past precedent, holding that the court has not identified a “fundamental right to vote” within the state constitution.
“It simply is not there,” Stegall wrote.
Justice Eric Rosen, one of the three who dissented, shot back: “It staggers my imagination to conclude Kansas citizens have no fundamental right to vote under their state constitution.”
“I cannot and will not condone this betrayal of our constitutional duty to safeguard the foundational rights of Kansans,” Rosen added.
If this ruling stands how long will it be before other red states try this end run on the people of their state?
If you are 18 and a citizen it does matter which of the 50 little republics you live you have a duty to vote and if anyone stands in your way then it is time to push back on this betrayal of the people.
Is this what you want for this country?
I Read, I Write, you Know
“lego ergo scribo”
It should not be decided by a state whether or not you can vote. The counties in Britain (the nearest equivalent to your states) have to provide voting facilities by law, and cannot change or alter any of the process individually.
Best wishes, Pete.
Sounds like a solid deal…..this state’s rights BS is screwing this country royally. chuq
There is a lot of misinformation about what is or is not in the US Constituion and state constitutions regarding the right to vote. What it boils down to is that nowhere in the US Constitution are citizens granted some kind of universal right to vote. Nowhere. There are amendments that prohibit the states from disenfranchising certain groups of people based on gender or race. There are clauses that state that US senators and representatives are elected by vote, etc. But voting itself? Not there. Under a strict interpretation of the Constitution, there is no universal right to vote.
While that judge in Kansas is being vilified for what he said, technically he’s correct. There is no specific right to vote granted in the Kansas constitution.
Interesting….research time chuq
There is so much “rot” in our judicial system, going all the way to the top, that we continue to diminish the respect for any branch of government…shameful
This whole thing is interesting…..oh geez I foresee a post coming….chuq