Groups seek repeal of Kansas voter citizenship law
By Dion Lefler
Wichita Eagle
TOPEKA — About 100 people rallied in the Capitol rotunda Tuesday supporting a proposal by Wichita lawmakers to ease restrictions on voting registration that have resulted in 15,000 Kansans being ineligible to vote.
The demonstrators listened to speeches from like-minded legislators and briefly occupied Gov. Sam Brownback’s ceremonial and public-relations offices in an unsuccessful effort to get him to speak to them.
They were there to protest a state law requiring that new voter registrants provide documents proving their U.S. citizenship – generally a birth certificate or passport – before they can cast a ballot in an election.
Among those who spoke at the meeting was Derek Bruey, a lifelong Kansan and Wichita State University music education student, who said he’s among the 15,000 prospective voters whose registration has been blocked.
Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2013/09/03/2979319/groups-seek-repeal-of-kansas-voter.html