Tuesday Topics: Decoding the Kansas Citizenship Voting Requirement Amendment

Kansans will vote on a constitutional amendment in the November general election. This month, we will hear from Marisa O’Gara on the topic “Decoding the Kansas Citizen Voting Requirement Amendment.”
**About our Speaker** Marisa O’Gara is a Senior Policy Advisor at the Institute for Responsive Government, where she drafts election legislation and constitutional amendments both nationally and in Kansas. She previously spent four years as an election litigator at Elias Law Group, where she litigated voting rights cases nationally and in Kansas. Her work in the state includes constitutional challenges to Kansas’s elimination of the three-day mail ballot grace period, as well as litigation in which the League has been a plaintiff regarding Kansas’s signature matching law and the “false representation of an election official” provision. She received her B.A. from the University of Rhode Island, her J.D. from Cornell University, and is a member of the Kansas, Illinois, and D.C. bars.
**About the proposed constitutional amendment**On Nov. 3, 2026, Kansas voters will decide on a proposed constitutional amendment on their general election ballots.
Constitutional Amendment – Kansas Citizenship Voting Requirement
Explanatory statement: This amendment would clarify that only a person who is a citizen of the United States is eligible to vote in this state.
A vote for this proposition would clarify that only a person who is a citizen of the United States is eligible to vote in this state.A vote against this proposition would make no change to the constitution of the state of Kansas, and the language concerning voter qualifications would remain the same.____About Tuesday Topics: The first Tuesday of each month the League of Women Voters hosts a presenter to discuss various civic engagement topics. Lunch can be purchased from the library’s Millennium Cafe and brought into the meeting.
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