Kansas voting issues

Election and registration information

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 * Kansas - Secretary of State - Voter Information


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2008 election
For the 2008 election Kansas used the following voting machines in addition to hand-counted paper ballots in some counties. For a county-by-county list of the specific machines (and the source for this section) see Verified Voting's Verifier tool.

Direct-Recording Electronic (DRE) machines with a paper trail:
 * Premier Election Solutions' (Diebold) AccuVote-TSX
 * ES&S iVotronic

Optical scan machines:
 * Premier Election Solutions' (Diebold) AccuVote-OS
 * Election Systems & Software's Model 650

Assistive Devices for Marking Paper Ballots:
 * Election Systems & Software's AutoMARK Technical Systems AutoMARK VAT

Governmental election authorities
Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh


 * Elections website: http://www.kssos.org/elections/elections.html

Contact information:
 * Kansas Secretary of State
 * Memorial Hall, 1st Floor
 * 120 SW 10th Avenue
 * Topeka, KS 66612-1594
 * (785) 296-4564


 * Email: [mailto:election@kssos.org election@kssos.org]

Locate your County Election Officer

Election threats

 * For an extensive log of voting machine problems, see the VotersUnite! report on election incidents.

Voter registration procedures

 * Oct. 31, 2008 -- Several hundred voters who submitted their registrations at drivers' license offices have arrived at the polls to find that their registrations had not been processed. The cause of the error is currently unknown. All those affected were offered provisional ballots.

State and local non-governmental election organizations
League of Women Voters

LWV of Kansas, Diane Kuhn, President
 * 618 S. Kansas Avenue, Ste. B1
 * Topeka, KS 66603-0000
 * Phone: 785-234-5152
 * Fax: 785-233-9277
 * E-mail: lwvk@sbcglobal.net
 * http://www.lwvk.org

Local Leagues:
 * Emporia
 * Great Bend
 * Johnson County
 * Lawrence/Douglas County
 * Manhattan/ Riley County
 * Salina
 * Topeka-Shawnee County
 * Wichita Metro