“It’s … a certainty that aliens will be allowed to vote in this primary election …” Secretary of State Kris Kobach said, after Shawnee County District Court Judge Larry Hendricks ruled votes of people who registered without proof of citizenship documentation must be counted.
The ruling, in response to an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit, means 17,600 people who registered at motor vehicle offices will be affected. About 50,000 Kansans would vote on Nov. 8, if another hearing bears the same results.
Their votes would have counted regardless in national elections, and now do in local and state races.