Voting next year could get easier as Sedgwick County commissioners encourage the state legislature to change the rules when it comes to where you can vote.
Currently, voting locations are decided by where registered voters live. Sedgwick County commissioners now encourage lawmakers to allow Kansans to vote at any location within their county on Election Day.
“I think that is extremely convenient. It is very important for us to exercise our civil right to vote,” Wichita resident Julie Sullivan says.
Sedgwick County already has the technology for such a change.
“Our voting machines that our taxpayers paid $7 million for just a couple years ago are capable of any precinct that you are in,” Sedgwick County Commission David Dennis says. “We can vote it on our machines.”
If the voting-rule change happened, it would also apply to early voting. Dennis and Sedgwick County Election Commissioner Tabitha Lehman say a change would not lead to increased problems with voter fraud.
“It is very secure and in addition, there is now way that someone could try to manipulate (a) vote one way or the other,” Dennis says.
(Read more: KWCH News)