Chapter 25 — ELECTIONS

25-2422. Unauthorized voting disclosure. (a) Unauthorized voting disclosure is, while being charged with any election duty, intentionally: (1) Disclosing or exposing the contents of any ballot, whether cast in a regular or provisional manner, or the name of any voter who cast suc…

25-2423. Election tampering. (a) Election tampering is: (1) Making or changing any election record unless the person is lawfully carrying out an election duty; (2) changing or attempting to change, alter, destroy or conceal any vote cast by paper ballot, election machine or compu…

25-2424. False impersonation as party officer. False impersonation as party officer is willfully and falsely representing oneself to be an officer of any political party organization or committeeman or committeewoman thereof with the intent to deceive any person or to influence i…

25-2425. Voting machine fraud. Voting machine fraud is: (a) Being in unlawful or unauthorized possession of a voting machine key. (b) Intentionally tampering with, altering, disarranging, defacing, impairing or destroying any voting machine, automatic ballot, voting machine label…

25-2426. Printing and circulating imitation ballots. Printing and circulating imitation ballots is knowingly printing and circulating sample or imitation ballots except the official sample ballot furnished by the county election officer. Printing and circulating imitation ballots…

25-2427. Marking ballots to identify. Marking ballots to identify is knowingly, in any manner or fashion marking, folding or clipping any ballot so that such ballot may be distinguished from other ballots. Marking ballot to identify is a class A misdemeanor. History: L. 1974, ch.…

25-2428. Destruction of election supplies. Destruction of election supplies is intentionally destroying or defacing any list of candidates posted in accordance with law, card of instruction, sample ballot or any election supplies. Destruction of election supplies is a severity le…

25-2429. Destruction of election papers. Destruction of election papers is intentionally destroying any certificate of nomination or nomination papers or any letter of withdrawal of a candidate. Destruction of election papers is a severity level 9, nonperson felony. History: L. 1…

25-2430. Electioneering. (a) (1) Electioneering is: (A) Knowingly attempting to persuade or influence eligible voters to vote for or against a particular candidate, party or question submitted, including wearing, exhibiting or distributing labels, signs, posters, stickers or othe…

25-2431. False impersonation of a voter. (a) False impersonation of a voter is representing oneself as another person, whether real or fictitious, and thereby voting or attempting to vote. (b) False impersonation of a voter is a severity level 8, nonperson felony. History: L. 197…

25-2432. Forfeiture of office or employment upon conviction. Upon final conviction of any person of any offense specified in this act, such person shall forfeit any public office or public employment which he may hold in addition to any other penalties imposed for such offense. H…

25-2433. Advance voting suppression. Advance voting suppression is knowingly, with intent to impede, obstruct or exert undue influence on the election process: (a) Destroying or altering another person's advance voting ballot applied for, or completed, by a registered voter, unle…

25-2434. Voting more than once. (a) Voting more than once is intentionally: (1) Voting or attempting to vote more than once in the same jurisdiction in an election held on a particular date; (2) voting or attempting to vote in more than one jurisdiction in the United States in an…

25-2435. Prosecution of election crimes. (a) Independent authority to prosecute any person who has committed or attempted to commit any act that constitutes a Kansas elections crime defined in K.S.A. 25-1128, and amendments thereto, or article 24 of chapter 25 of the Kansas Statu…

25-2436. Transparency in revenues underwriting elections act; definitions; prohibiting receipt and expenditure of certain moneys by governmental agencies for election-related activities; penalty. (a) The provisions of this section shall be known and may be cited as the transparen…

25-2437. Transmission or delivery of advance voting ballots on behalf of another voter; sworn statement required; limitations; penalties. (a) No person shall knowingly transmit or deliver an advance voting ballot to the county election officer or polling place on behalf of a vote…

25-2438. False representation of an election official. (a) False representation of an election official is knowingly engaging in any of the following conduct by phone, mail, email, website or other online activity or by any other means of communication while not holding a positio…

25-2501. Definitions. As used in this act, the words and phrases set out in K.S.A. 25-2502 to 25-2507 shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them unless the context requires a different meaning. History: L. 1968, ch. 406, § 1; April 30. Attorney General's Opinions: Inde…

25-2502. Types of elections defined; dates for primary, general and special elections specified. (a) "General election" means the elections held on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November of both even-numbered and odd-numbered years, and in the case of an election of a…

25-2503. Same; national, state, county, city, school and township elections; question submitted election. (a) "National election" means the election of members of the United States house of representatives, members of the United States senate or members of the United States presi…

25-2504. Same; county election officer; chief state election official. "County election officer" means the election commissioner in counties having an election commissioner, and the county clerk in counties which do not have an election commissioner. "Chief state election officia…

25-2505. Same; national, state, county, city, school and township offices and officers. (a) "National office" or "national officer" means the office or members of the United States house of representatives, members of the United States senate and members of the United States pres…

25-2506. Same; election boards; voting place and area. (a) "Election board" means a board consisting of any odd number of persons all of whom shall be appointed as provided in this act. (b) "Voting place" means a place designated as provided by law for voters to vote. (c) "Area" …

25-2507. Poll book, registration book, party affiliation list; declaration; abstract. (a) "Poll book" means a book in which each voter may sign the voter's signature and a number is assigned by one of the clerks of the election board when the voter is given a ballot or set of bal…

25-2508. Statutory construction relating to age for election purposes. Whenever, in any statute relating to elections which was in effect prior to April 6, 1971, there is a provision fixing twenty-one (21) years as a minimum age for purposes of voting, registration, or any other …

25-2601. History: L. 1968, ch. 406, § 8; Repealed, L. 2023, ch. 79, § 65; July 1. Attorney General's Opinions: Formation of watershed districts; elections; qualified voters. 94-36. Local school elections; name of candidate printed on ballot more than once. 1999-13. Previous | Nex…

25-26a01. History: L. 1987, ch. 123, § 1; Repealed, L. 1990, ch. 127, § 5; April 19. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Documents Archived School Finance Document…

25-26a02. Precinct boundaries; establishment or change; requirements; designation of precincts; municipal and township enclaves; legislative districts. Election precincts in all counties of the state shall be established or changed by county election officers in such a manner tha…

25-26a03. Period in which change is prohibited; exceptions. (a) Notwithstanding any other law or provisions to the contrary, no election precinct shall be created, divided, abolished or consolidated or the boundaries thereof changed: (1) During the period four months prior to eac…

25-26a04. Same; maps; requirements; word description; filing with secretary of state; notification of change. (a) Each county election officer shall provide and maintain a suitable map or maps drawn to a scale no smaller than ½ mile to the inch in incorporated places and urban ar…

25-26a05. Same; review of maps by secretary of state; approval or rejection; boundaries established by secretary of state, when. (a) The secretary of state shall promptly review all precinct maps submitted pursuant to K.S.A. 25-26a04, and amendments thereto, for compliance with t…

25-2701. Designation of areas and voting places; restrictions on changing voting places prior to an election; voting at any voting place if approved by county election officer; mailed notice; counting and canvass of ballots in certain precincts having less than 20 registered vote…

25-2702. Townships; division into precincts; publication of notice of such division. The county election officer may establish more than one precinct in any township or divide any township into precincts. Such division shall be made by a declaration made at least 90 days before a…

25-2702a. Undivided wards and townships to constitute precincts. Whenever a ward or township is not divided into more than one voting precinct, the entire undivided ward or township shall constitute a "precinct" as that term is used in all laws relating to elections. History: L. …

25-2703. Voting places; equipping and supplying; voting booths, location, design and storage; privacy of voter. The county election officers shall provide suitable voting places in which to hold all national, state, county, township, city and school primary and general elections,…

25-2703a. School buildings, polling places. (a) All unified school districts shall make suitable school buildings available for polling places at the request of a county election officer for the county in which all or any portion of the school district is located. (b) The county …

25-2704. Ballot boxes; secretary of state may adopt rules and regulations; application of section. (a) The county election officer shall provide ballot boxes for each voting place. The secretary of state may adopt rules and regulations authorizing, in certain cases, additional or…

25-2705. Security of ballot boxes at polls; application of section. (a) At the time a voting place is opened, the supervising judge shall cause the ballot boxes to be opened in the presence of people there assembled. The ballot boxes shall be turned upside down so as to empty suc…

25-2706. Instructions, books and other materials; printing in foreign languages; responsibilities of county election officers and secretary of state. (a) The county election officer shall prepare and furnish copies of all registrations and all books, maps, instructions and blanks…

25-2707. Receipt for and record of election supplies. When election supplies, including ballots and poll books, are delivered by the county election officer to a supervising judge, a record shall be made thereof and the same shall be receipted. When the items provided by law to b…

25-2708. Preservation of ballots and election records; distribution of abstracts of voting. (a) The county election officer shall preserve all ballots, books and records delivered to such officer by election boards and make the same available to any canvassing board or election c…

25-2709. Destruction of election records. The following election records may be destroyed after they have been on file for the period stated: (1) Appointments and oaths of office of election board members, two years. (2) Registration lists, five years. (3) Poll books, five years.…

25-2710. Accessibility for voting places. On any day upon which an election is held, all polling places shall be accessible by either permanent or temporary means to any voter having a disability. History: L. 1977, ch. 128, § 1; L. 2004, ch. 93, § 5; July 1. Previous | Next LEGIS…

25-2711. Placement of political signs during election period. No city or county shall regulate or prohibit the placement of or the number of political signs on private property or the unpaved right-of-way for city streets or county roads on private property during the 45-day peri…

25-2712. Campaigning for elected office at private residences, not prohibited or subject to regulation. No city or county shall regulate or prohibit canvassing, polling, soliciting or otherwise approaching private residences for the purpose of distributing campaign literature or …

25-2713. Affidavit for transfer of ballots; requirements; violation of act, criminal penalty. (a) The secretary of state, in consultation with county election officers, shall develop an affidavit system to be utilized for the transfer of ballots. Each person who transfers ballots…

25-2801. Appointment and notification of judges and clerks. All election board judges and clerks shall be appointed by the county election officer and shall be subject to his direction and supervision. If practicable, not less than ten (10) days prior to the day of any election, …

25-2802. Political affiliation of judges and clerks of election. Of the members of any election board, not including the supervising judge, not more than one-half of the clerks shall be of the same political party, and not more than one-half of the judges shall be of the same pol…

25-2803. Recommendations by county chairmen; appointment of supervising judge; area located in two counties. (a) The county chairman of each of the central committees of the political parties that polled the largest and second largest number of votes in the state at the last stat…

25-2804. Qualifications of judges and clerks; county election officer to establish pool of trained judges and clerks; procedure for voting by judge or clerk. (a) Each person recommended as provided in K.S.A. 25-2803(a), and amendments thereto, shall be a citizen of the United Sta…