The League of Women Voters of Kansas PUBLICLY STATES ITS STAND THAT THE KANSAS VOTER LAWS HARM DEMOCRACY AND SUPPRESS THE CITIZENS RIGHT TO VOTE. The Kansas law violates the federal Voting Rights Act of 1993 meant to protect all voters rights. The Kansas League along with the LWV of Arizona and the League of Women Voters of the US have joined the Federal Election Assistance Commission in the law suit about the two teared system . We are represented by Wendy Wasser of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, as well as pro bono counsel Kirkland & Ellis LLP and David G. Seely of the law firm Fleeson, Gooing, Coulson & Kitch, LLC. November 21, 2013. The League of Women Voters of the United States and the organization’s Kansas and Arizona affiliates today joined a lawsuit arguing the new laws requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote in these states violate federal law. The League of Women Voters operates one of the longest-running nonpartisan voter registration efforts in the nation. The documentary proof-of-citizenship requirements in Kansas and Arizona harm those registration efforts and undermine the League’s core mission of promoting voter participation, according to the motion submitted today by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, as well as pro bono counsel Kirkland & Ellis LLP and David G. Seely of the law firm Fleeson, Gooing, Coulson & Kitch, LLC. “The Kansas and Arizona laws would make it harder for certain citizens to vote,” said Wendy Weiser, who directs the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program and represents the Leagues in this case. “The Supreme Court this year invalidated Arizona’s law and clearly confirmed Congress’s authority to protect the right to vote in federal elections. This lawsuit by Kansas and Arizona is a transparent attempt to undermine that authority, and it could seriously hurt voters.”
Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 01:40:24 +0000
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