It looks like the Republican Party's desperate attempt to rig the Kansas Senate race is going to fail: The Kansas Supreme Court has sent Secretary of State "Kris Kobach's" latest lawsuit — in which he's trying to make the Democratic Party nominate a candidate to replace Chad Taylor — down to the Shawnee County district court to gather evidence.
This will most likely run out the clock on the ballot printing process. But apparently the Sunflower State Supremes weren't convinced that the Democratic shill who filed the suit on "Kobach's" behalf had standing in the case to begin with. (The shill, by the way, happens to be the father of a dude who works for the Brownback campaign. Ahem.)
We cats are not lawyers, but we assume that the plaintiff would have had to be someone who voted in last month's Senate primary. And since there were other races on the ballot, how do you prove that he actually did? That'll be interesting to watch as the lower court's fact-finding gets underway.
Meanwhile, we guess that "Kris Kobach" tried to argue that, by not placing a candidate name on the Senate ballot, Kansas Democrats were essentially disenfranchising not just the shill but everyone who voted on August 5. Gee, his concern for the rights of voters is touching. Until we think about all the anti-immigrant, block-the-vote legislation he's written for ALEC. We cats HISS.
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