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Appeals court scrutinizes constitutionality of fusion voting

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State appeals court judges on Tuesday peppered lawyers seeking to make fusion voting legal with questions about whether the method was confusing and if it was an issue that should be decided in a courtroom and not at the Capitol.

About a minute into oral arguments Tuesday, Judge Stephen Hill took on the lawyer for United Kansas, a new political party created in Kansas in 2024.

The United Kansas party was created with a goal of backing "fusion candidates" who could represent more than one party on the ballot, which led to a lawsuit challenging a 1901 law that banned . . .

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