Kansas Bill to End Rotation of Candidates’ Names on Ballot and to Make all Local Elections Partisan

According to this story, Kansas Senator Mitch Holmes (R-St. John) will soon introduce a bill that ends the practice of rotating the names of candidates on ballots. The story does not say how the bill would determine the order of candidates on the ballot. Chances are, it will say the nominees of the party that got the most votes in the last gubernatorial election will always be listed first.

The bill will also bring back the straight-ticket device, which Kansas abolished in 1923. And it will make all city and town elections partisan instead of non-partisan. Kansas already has partisan elections for county and township office.


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