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🚨 TOPEKA — GET TO THE POLLS TODAY 🚨

🚨 TOPEKA — GET TO THE POLLS TODAY 🚨

The Kansas Supreme Court amendment is on today’s primary ballot, and most Kansans don’t even know it’s there. That’s not an accident — Kris Kobach and his ultra-conservative allies pushed the Kansas Supreme Court amendment onto a low-turnout primary election on purpose, knowing conservative Republicans reliably show up for primaries while Democrats and independents often stay home.

What Does the Kansas Supreme Court Amendment Actually Do?

The Kansas Supreme Court amendment would change how Kansas Supreme Court justices get on the bench. Instead of our current system, judges would have to run in campaign elections — which sounds “democratic” on the surface, but it means judges would need campaign cash to win. That cash comes from billionaires, corporations, and out-of-state special interest groups. Voting yes on the Kansas Supreme Court amendment turns our independent courts into something that can be bought and sold.

Why Is Kobach Pushing the Kansas Supreme Court Amendment?

Because our Supreme Court keeps striking down the abortion bans Kobach and his allies have spent decades trying to force through. He’s said the quiet part out loud: the Kansas Supreme Court amendment is a strategy to eventually get anti-abortion judges on the bench and overturn the court’s protections for reproductive rights.

“But Isn’t Electing Judges More Democratic?”

This is the trap baked into the Kansas Supreme Court amendment, and it’s worth understanding before you vote. Our current system is already democratic: a nominating commission screens candidates on merit, the governor appoints one, and then voters get to vote directly on whether to keep every single justice, every six years.

Former Kansas Chief Justice Lawton Nuss put it plainly: retention voting is already about as democratic as it gets — a competitive, merit-based process, “not based on who you know or how much money you’ve raised.” Swap that for cash-funded elections and you don’t get more democracy under the Kansas Supreme Court amendment — you get a court that answers to whoever writes the biggest check.

Why You Should Vote No on the Kansas Supreme Court Amendment

State Senate Democrats called this exactly what it is during floor debate: a for-sale sign on Kansas justice. Once it’s up for sale, we don’t get it back. That’s why the answer on the Kansas Supreme Court amendment is simple: vote no.

VOTE NO TODAY. Every registered Kansas voter — Republican, Democrat, or unaffiliated — can vote on the Kansas Supreme Court amendment, even if you don’t vote in a party primary. Find your polling place, bring photo ID, and make sure everyone you know in Topeka votes no on the Kansas Supreme Court amendment before polls close tonight.

📍 Find your polling place: https://myvoteinfo.voteks.org/VoterView/