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Hearing held on repeal of mail-only ballot law as proponents and clerks spar over turnout and costs
Summary
A hearing on House Bill 25-03, which would repeal the Mail Ballot Election Act (mail-only elections), featured a proponent who said mail-only ballots depress turnout and an opponent county clerk who said mail ballots often raise turnout and are administratively useful. Witnesses flagged drafting and statistical questions.
The Committee on Elections held a hearing on House Bill 25-03, which would repeal the state’s Mail Ballot Election Act and remove statutes that allow exclusively mail-only elections for certain question-only contests.
Representative Rivas, the bill’s proponent, said exclusively mail-in elections have discouraged participation, increased costs and produced poorly designed ballots that voters treated as junk mail in at least one Atchison school-district election. Rivas also told the committee that the U.S. Postal…
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