Jason Snead, Executive Director of Honest Elections Project Action, released the following statement:
“The Kansas legislature has made the Sunflower State a national leader on election integrity. Banning foreign influence in ballot issue campaigns and outlawing ranked-choice voting are commonsense policies that will help protect the integrity of elections for all Kansans. These new laws make Kansas the third state this year to ban foreign influence, and the 14th state in the nation to ban ranked-choice voting.
“Foreign nationals are already barred from donating to individual candidates and Super PACS – ballot issue campaigns should be no different. RCV is a convoluted process that makes it harder to vote and turns elections into a black box, damaging public trust in election results. Congratulations to Representative Pat Proctor and Senator Mike Thompson for their leadership on these important measures, which will make it easy to vote and hard to cheat in Kansas.”