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Our call — vote YES
The measure
The Citizenship Voting Requirement Amendment is a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on Kansas's November 3, 2026 ballot. It would restate the qualifications of a Kansas elector: "No person shall be deemed a qualified elector unless" that person is a citizen of the United States, at least 18 years old, and a resident of the voting area. It replaces the current "Every citizen…" phrasing with an explicit requirement that citizenship is a condition of being an elector at all.
What YES does
A yes vote makes U.S. citizenship an express constitutional precondition of voting in Kansas.
What NO does
A no vote leaves the current constitutional wording in place.
The math
No fiscal note for this measure was published on its Ballotpedia page.
OUR CALL
Our call: YES.
Only citizens should vote — and the constitution should say it in the form that leaves no gap: no citizenship, no elector status. Reframing the clause from describing who citizens are to requiring citizenship of every voter closes the interpretive space that noncitizen-voting experiments elsewhere have exploited. It costs nothing and settles the question.
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Sources
- Ballotpedia — Kansas Citizenship Voting Requirement Amendment measure page (accessed October 25, 2026)
- Ballotpedia — 2026 ballot measures — https://ballotpedia.org/2026_ballot_measures
Result pending. No verified call (Associated Press or official) as of November 4, 2026. This page will be updated when the race is called or certified. The original article above is unchanged.
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