Supreme Court of Kansas

League of Women Voters of Kansas v. Schwab

May 31, 2024

Summary

The court held that the false-representation provision is substantially likely to be overbroad because it reaches protected speech based on a listener's mistaken belief that a speaker is an election official, and it remanded for consideration of the remaining temporary-injunction factors. It upheld dismissal of the article 5 challenge to the signature-verification requirement because the requirement is a permissible means of providing proper proofs, but remanded the equal-protection and due-process claims for factual development. It also upheld dismissal of challenges to the ballot-collection restriction, concluding that the restriction neither adds a qualification to voting nor regulates speech or expressive conduct.