Article 5, Kansas Constitution

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Article 5 of the Kansas Constitution is labeled Suffrage and consists of seven sections.

Section 1

Text of Section 1: Qualifications of Electors Every citizen of the United States who has attained the age of eighteen years and who resides in the voting area in which he or she seeks to vote shall be deemed a qualified elector. Laws of this state relating to voting for presidential electors and candidates for the office of president and vice-president of the United States shall comply with the laws of the United States relating thereto. A citizen of the United States, who is otherwise qualified to vote in Kansas for presidential electors and candidates for the offices of president and vice-president of the United States may vote for such officers either in person or by absentee ballot notwithstanding the fact that such person may have become a nonresident of this state if his or her removal from this state occurs during a period in accordance with federal law next preceding such election. A person who is otherwise a qualified elector may vote in the voting area of his or her former residence either in person or by absentee ballot notwithstanding the fact that such person may have become a nonresident of such voting area during a period prescribed by law next preceding the election at which he or she seeks to vote, if his new residence is in another voting area in the state of Kansas.

Section 2

	Text of Section 2: Disqualification to Vote The legislature may, by law, exclude persons from voting because of commitment to a jail or penal institution. No person convicted of a felony under the laws of any state or of the United States, unless pardoned or restored to his civil rights, shall be qualified to vote.

Amendments

• Amended on November 2, 2010 with the approval of Kansas Voting Disqualification Amendment, Constitutional Amendment Question 2 (2010).

Section 4

	Text of Section 4: Proof of Right to Vote The legislature shall provide by law for proper proofs of the right of suffrage.

Section 7

	Text of Section 7: Privileges of Electors Electors, during their attendance at elections, and in going to and returning therefrom, shall be privileged from arrest in all cases except felony or breach of the peace.

See also

• State constitution
• Constitutional article
• Constitutional amendment
• Constitutional revision
• Constitutional convention
• Amendments
  • Initiated constitutional amendment
  • Legislatively-referred constitutional amendment
  • Publication requirements for proposed state constitutional amendments
  • Rules about constitutional conventions in state constitutions
  • State constitutional articles governing state legislatures

External links

Suggest a link

• Kansas State Library, "Kansas Constitution"
• Kansapedia: Kansas State Historical Society, "Wyandotte Constitution"
• Kansapedia: Kansas State Historical Society, "Kansas Constitutions"

Additional reading

• Heller, Francis H. (2011) The Kansas State Constitution, New York, New York: Oxford University Press
• Wilder, D.W. (1875). The Annals of Kansas
• Cutler, William G. (1883) History of the State of Kansas, Chicago, Illinois: A. T. Andreas