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In a bizarre mixed ruling combining several challenges to a 2021 election law, Kansas’s supreme court has ruled that its residents have no right to vote enshrined in the state’s constitution.

The opinion centering on a ballot signature-verification measure elicited fiery dissent from three of the court’s seven justices. But the majority held that the court failed to identify a “fundamental right to vote” within the state.

The measure in question requires election officials to match the signatures on advance mail ballots to a person’s voter registration record. The state supreme court reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit that challenged that. The majority of justices on the state supreme court then rejected arguments from voting rights groups that the measure violates state constitutional voting rights.

Justice Eric Rosen, one of the three who dissented, wrote: “It staggers my imagination to conclude Kansas citizens have no fundamental right to vote under their state constitution.

“I cannot and will not condone this betrayal of our constitutional duty to safeguard the foundational rights of Kansans.”

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[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 72 points 4 weeks ago

Conservatives are just desperate for a nice simple monarchy.

[-] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 44 points 4 weeks ago

On reddit, I got banned in the conservative sub because I agreed with someone arguing that the country should just go with a monarchy. I said after Hillary wins she should adopt AOC to take over when she dies. Do you not think about the power your giving people? What if it's someone you don't like?

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 35 points 4 weeks ago

These people are fascists. They would not be fascists if they ever believed for a moment that they wouldn't be part of the "in" group.

Of course anyone who knows anything about history knows how foolish this is.

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