Kansas would bar most mail voting if courts block signature checks

Kansas would bar most mail voting after the secretary of state publishes notice of a qualifying court ruling. The mail-voting restriction would apply statewide. Section 4 also calls for repealing a listed set of advance-voting laws. A state or federal court must invalidate or block enforcement of the specified signature checks through a final ruling that can no longer be appealed. Mail voting specifically required by federal law would remain allowed, including voting protected for military and overseas voters. The secretary would monitor court challenges and publish notice in the next regular Kansas Register after the ruling. Publication would trigger the ban. Section 4 names both July 1, 2026, and the notice date for repeals, but leaves their relationship unclear.

The secretary of state would provide ballot-envelope spaces for voters, helpers, and people signing for voters. A person could sign for a voter who physically cannot sign or cannot sign consistently with the voter's signature in the voter registration database. The person signing for a voter would swear that the voter cannot physically sign or cannot match their recorded signature. The envelope would warn that signing under false pretenses is perjury, the crime of lying under oath. The proposal would take effect after publication in the statute book.