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Kansas League Of Women Voters Accused Of Buying High School Voter Registrations

Kansas AG tells League to ‘stop offering cash, gift cards, or any other item of value in connection with voter registration or voting…’

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The left-wing League of Women Voters is on notice after allegedly trying to pay high school students to register to vote earlier this year in Kansas. 

The state lawmaker who first raised concerns about the registration incentives tells The Federalist a local chapter of the LWV couldn’t have been more brazen about the promotion. 

‘They May Not Buy Registrations’

On Friday, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach sent a cease-and-desist letter to the League of Women Voters of Kansas and the LVW chapter in Leavenworth County, demanding the groups “immediately stop offering cash, gift cards, or any other item of value in connection with voter registration or voting…” 

The Republican AG also referred the matter to Ryan Kriegshauser, U.S. Attorney for the Kansas District who in his short time in the position has earned a reputation as an aggressive prosecutor of election fraud. Kobach advised the LWV that the state also reserves the right “to bring any appropriate enforcement action following further investigation.”

In a press release, Kobach explained that social media posts from the Leavenworth chapter of the League advertised gift card giveaways to students in exchange for their voter registrations, including a photo of a table sign that read, “Register to vote get a Starbucks gift card.” 

Doing so is a federal crime, the attorney general warned in the letter to  Marlene Merrill, president of the League of Women Voters of Kansas, based in Topeka. Individuals convicted of knowingly paying a person “either for registration to vote or for voting” face up to $10,000 in fines and up to five years in prison. 

It’s illegal in Kansas, too. 

“The conduct which the League of Women Voters is alleged to have engaged in appears to violate both federal and state law,” the attorney general wrote. 

Source: League of Women Voters Leavenworth County Facebook

Individuals who accept such election bribes can be charged, too, but sources say it’s unlikely the unwitting high school students will face any consequences. 

Lest “voter rights” groups believe nominal gift cards a trifling matter in the pursuit of voter registration, Kobach informed Merrill that there is no “de minimus” exception. 

“Paying people to register or to vote is illegal, period,” the Republican AG said. “The size of the gift card does not matter. These prohibitions exist to protect the integrity of our elections and public confidence in the results. Groups may encourage registration and help eligible Kansans complete the process. They may not buy registrations.”

The AG also told the League to “reserve all records relating to the activity, including financial records and registration forms collected” and to identify “every instance in Kansas in which the organization........

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