The Kansas Supreme Courtroom sided with nonprofit political engagement teams, discovering their declare for a short lived injunction concerning a just lately handed statute associated to impersonating election officers, had standing.
The panel reversed the Courtroom of Appeals ruling which wrongly dismissed claims introduced by the League of Ladies Voters of Kansas, Loud Gentle, Kansas Appleseed Heart for Legislation and Justice Inc. and Topeka Unbiased Residing Useful resource Heart. They sought a short lived injunction towards Kansas Statutes Annotated 25-2438(a)(2)-(3), which makes it a severity degree 7, nonperson felony to have interaction in “conduct that provides the looks of being an election official” or conduct that “would trigger one other individual to consider an individual partaking in such conduct is an election official.”
