25-3604. Where voter registration required, similarity to registration required; rules and regulations by secretary of state. - Kansas Statutes

25-3604

Chapter 25.--ELECTIONS Article 36.--SUFFICIENCY OF PETITIONS

      25-3604.   Where voter registration required, similarity to registrationrequired; rules and regulations by secretary of state.In counties, cities, school districts and other municipalities, or partthereof, where registration of voters is required in the entire territorythereof, the signatures to petitions which assert that the petitioners are"legally qualified electors" or words of like effect in conformity with theapplicable statute shall be accepted, by the officer determining thesufficiency of petition signatures, as proper signatures, so long aspersons of the same names or ones of such similarity as to reasonablyappear to be the same persons are contained in the registration books, andso long as the address of the petitioner is furnished, unless such officialhas reasonable evidence that the asserted signature in question is not infact the signature of the person it purports to be, or that the signaturethough genuine is not the signature of a duly qualified elector. Thesecretary of state shall adopt rules and regulations for the guidance ofcounty election officers and other officers as specified by law in makingdetermination under this section of sufficient similarity of names onpetitions and names in registration books.

      History:   L. 1970, ch. 147, § 4; March 11.