Kansas House passes election bills targeting noncitizens, advanced voting

By: Anna Kaminski

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: February 23, 2026

Words: 1,415

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 3 days ago

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TOPEKA — Kansas lawmakers could transform elections with a series of bills that squeeze advanced voting timelines, stamp out rare instances of noncitizen voting and tinker with some candidate filing and advocacy rules.

One bill sought to eradicate elections exclusively conducted by mail.

Many of the changes largely were driven by the House Elections Committee chair, Rep. Pat Proctor, a Leavenworth Republican who is running for secretary of state, and co-chair, Rep. Paul Waggoner, a …

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