Kansas joins mul­ti­state chal­lenge against ‘Biden­bucks’ vot­er reg­is­tra­tion scheme

Kansas and a coali­tion of sev­er­al Repub­li­can-led states joined a law­suit to block the Biden admin­is­tra­tion from using tax­pay­er-fund­ed fed­er­al agen­cies to reg­is­ter new vot­ers and decried it an “unlaw­ful” over­reach that could result in mil­lions of new Demo­c­ra­t­ic reg­is­trants.
The law­suit, filed in the U.S. Dis­trict Court for the Dis­trict of Kansas, claims the Biden administration’s 2021 Exec­u­tive Order 14019, which man­dates fed­er­al agen­cies to engage in vot­er reg­is­tra­tion activ­i­ties, over­steps the author­i­ty grant­ed to the exec­u­tive branch and infringes on state sov­er­eign­ty.

Kansas Attor­ney Gen­er­al Kris Kobach answers ques­tions from reporters dur­ing a news con­fer­ence out­side his office, May 1, 2023, in Tope­ka, Kansas. (AP Photo/John Han­na, File)

“Just as it’s ille­gal for a Demo­c­rat admin­is­tra­tion to do this, it would be ille­gal for a Repub­li­can admin­is­tra­tion to do this,” Repub­li­can Kansas Attor­ney Gen­er­al Kris Kobach told the Wash­ing­ton Exam­in­er. “We have a sys­tem where the gov­ern­ment itself must fol­low the …