Abortion question on Kansas ballot is causing an HUGE early voter surge leaning more Dem than usual

[Demovictory9]

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/abortion-question-boosts-early-kansas-voting-primary-87450779

Abortion question boosts early Kansas voting for primary
Early voting is surging in Kansas ahead of next week’s statewide abortion vote and the electorate so far is leaning more Democratic than usual

TOPEKA, Kan. -- Early voting is surging in Kansas ahead of next week’s statewide abortion vote and the electorate so far is leaning more Democratic than usual.

More than 2½ times as many people had cast early ballots as of Tuesday compared to the same point in the 2018 mid-term primary, the Kansas secretary of state's office reported. Voters will decide Aug. 2 whether to amend the Kansas Constitution to allow the Legislature to further restrict or ban abortion.

Polling has suggested that Democrats are far stronger supporters of abortion-rights than Republicans, and Democrats so far make up 42% of the people who have cast ballots early in Kansas, compared to 44% for Republicans. Over the past 10 years, Republicans have typically cast twice as many ballots in a primary election as Democrats. Unaffiliated voters — who can't participate in a partisan primary unless they pick a party label — have cast nearly 14% of the early votes.

The Kansas vote is the first statewide referendum on abortion policy since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in late June. In Douglas County, among a few Democratic strongholds in Republican-leaning Kansas and home to the liberal main University of Kansas campus, 5,800 people already have cast early in-person ballots. The normal figure for a primary is about 2,200, said County Clerk Jamie Shew, who oversees its elections.

“Very rarely do you see an event that has a clear impact like that," said Shew, an elected Democrat.

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1. So if I'm reading this right

Take the popular side of an issue (like 2-1 in favor of full humanity for women) and voters will turn out for you?

I wonder if anyone else has stumbled across this?

[Demovictory9]

4. Crazy talk!!!

[keithbvadu2]

2. So what plan do repubs have to change the vote counts?

So what plan do repubs have to change the vote counts?

[Demovictory9]

3. Ignore the law if vote doesn't go anti abortion..like gop in Florida with felon voting law

[3Hotdogs]

5. Well. Unborn babies are residents and they should get a vote in the matter.

So we can expect God ferrin' Republicans to register on their behalf and outnumber the heathen Democrat votes.

Yiz couldn't figure this out for yourselves?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. Roe your vote! ...

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

[MyMission]

7. Because they're asking the question

The states with trigger laws or passing new laws never asked residents to vote on the issue.

That's what might be needed on a state level, getting the question on the ballot, determining popular sentiment and then reversing state bans. Just had that thought as I was replying.

[dsc]

8. They had no choice as the Kansas Supreme Court

ruled that abortion was a protected right.

[Racygrandma]

9. The state constitution prevents them from banning

abortion. So they have to change the constitution. Living here in the north end of Wichita. The way I understand it they wrote the law and it could not pass because of the constitution. I read a draft of the law and now can not find it. But if declares a zygote "life" at the moment of conception, no exceptions. It is amazing how many "vote no" signs are up.