Anger in Kansas over Spanish-language voting guide with wrong registration deadlines

Hmm!


Anger in Kansas over Spanish-language voting guide with wrong registration deadlines | Fox News Latino

"One of the glaring problems with the Spanish guide was that it said, in two places, that voters could register up to 15 days before an election, even though the actual deadline is 21 days before the election. Another issue was that Spanish-speakers were not told in the guide that they could use their passports as identification when registering even though the English-language guide made that clear".

“Determining if this was incompetency or malevolence by the Kansas Secretary of State’s office will not address the real problem: that for some time, Kansans have worked off of clearly bad information,” Reeves wrote in an article in DailyKos. “The publication of documents certainly show that not all Kansans are treated equal — as errors on the English language side obviously did not occur, implying that at a minimum, more attention was paid to English language documents.”

 

Perhaps these are innocent mistakes made by people who are sincere in their jobs. The behaviors of those in power in Kansas, however, make it difficult to maintain such a perspective.