Records show Kansas election officials refused call to police gender markers on voter files

By: Sherman Smith

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: September 16, 2026

Words: 886

Last Updated: 2 days, 4 hours ago

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TOPEKA — A Kansas Republican Party officer called the Secretary of State’s Office in July to ask why a new state law that regulates gender markers wasn’t being applied to the voter registration of a transgender Democrat running for a Kansas House seat.

Senior election officials disagreed with his interpretation of Senate Bill 244, the new law that requires bathroom use and gender markers on government documents to align with an individual’s sex assigned …

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