Kansas Courts Prevent Candidates from Contacting Provisional Voters to Help Those Voters Finalize their Ballots

Both federal and state courts in Kansas have acted to prevent various candidates in close elections from contacting provisional voters. See this story. The candidates are in elections for which the vote totals are very close. The candidates want to contact the provisional voters in their districts, to assist them in returning to the elections office and finalizing their provisional ballots. But, the courts ruled that this would violate the privacy rights of the provisional voters.


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