Gov. Laura Kelly on Monday vetoed a bill repealing a 2017 law that gives voters a three-day grace period for their mail ballots to arrive at election offices.
The governor called the bill an "attack on rural Kansans"
"The three-day grace period for mail ballots was a bipartisan solution approved by the Legislature in 2017 to address delays in processing of mail by the United States Postal Service, particularly in rural areas," Kelly said in a statement.
"The goal was to ensure that all Kansans had their votes counted, no matter where they lived," the governor said in . . .
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