Kansas' Spanish-Language Voting Guide Contains Some Very Suspicious Errors

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/kansas-spanish-language-voting-guide-162000357.html?nhp=1

If you speak Spanish and plan to vote in Kansas, you might want to read this. There's stuff you should know.

According to the Wichita Eagle, the state's voting guide for Spanish-language speakers gave some very different instructions from the English version — instructions that, if followed, would effectively prevent many Hispanics from voting.

Democratic consultant Chris Reeves broke the news for Daily Kos on Thursday. After talking with a Spanish-speaking acquaintance, he learned two important things:

1. The Spanish-language voting guide in Kansas incorrectly stated people must be registered to vote 15 days before an election. The correct number, as stated in the English version, is actually 21 days (the number was changed in 2014, the Wichita Eagle reported).

This means Spanish-speakers in Kansas would have been under the impression they had six extra days to register — a six-day period during which, if they registered, their vote would be ineligible.

And of course, there more dirty tricks involved.