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New registration program’s citizenship verification not working as intended By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com
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RYDEN FINCK, 2, finds a peaceful perch on a small platform in the middle of a treehouse in DeVictor Park, at 1100 George Williams Way. The treehouse is a 10-foot-by-12foot structure that was built around an Osage orange tree by the Lawrence Parks and Recreation department and features this small, raised observation seat. The railings are Eastern red cedar branches. AT RIGHT, Becky Finck brought her children, Ryden and Harper, 4, to the treehouse in the northwest corner of the park on Friday.
TOPEKA — Problems in Kansas’ requirement for new voters to prove citizenship have surfaced just six months after the law took effect. Since Jan. 1, 11,101 people who have attempted to register to vote are in “suspense,� meaning they are not yet qualified to vote, because of lack of proof of citizenship, according to the Kansas Secretary of State’s office. During that same time period, 20,780 voters have been added to the rolls, which means approximately one of three voter registration applications have not been finalized. An analysis of the 370 in suspense in Douglas County shows that 339 are because of lack of citizenship documentation, according to Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew. Of those 370 in suspense, 310 came from registrations at
the state’s Division of Motor Vehicles, where people getting driver’s licenses often register to vote. Shew said that when Kobach people show proof of U.S. citizenship to get a driver’s license at the Division of Motor Vehicles, the citizenship documentation is not making it to election officials for voter registration purposes. The cause of that problem is unclear. Under the DMV’s $40 million upgrade to the computer system that handles driver’s licenses, the project was supposed to allow the division to store electronic copies of birth certificates and other documents proving a driver’s citizenship and transfer them to election Please see VOTERS, page 2A
States assert they have rights to Day on the links an endurance sport reject federal laws Golfers to play 100 holes,
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Since January, Catherine Shenoy has spent part of each weekend strolling around the Lawrence Country Club golf course. Weather permitting, she would walk the course, play a round of golf, play another round of golf and walk the course again, until she could complete 50 or 60 holes in one day. When there was snow on the ground in February she would just walk, carrying her clubs from one hole to the next. Earlier this month, Shenoy played an alltime high of 62 holes. Today she will take it up a notch. Shenoy
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Shenoy Ross and four other golfers are planning to play 100 holes on foot, totaling about 35 miles, beginning with a shotgun start at 5:30 a.m. “I’m ready to go,� Shenoy said. “I just want it to get here and get going.� Shenoy, a finance professor at Kansas University, along with
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Hundred Hole Hike According to its website, the Hundred Hole Hike was organized after Jim Colton Please see GOLF, page 2A
KRISTEN SAMP, a teaching pro at Lawrence Country Club, and four other golfers will play 100 holes of golf at LCC today as part of a nationwide event: the 100 Hole Hike.
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JEFFERSON CITY, MO. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Imagine the scenario: A federal agent attempts to arrest someone for illegally selling a machine gun. Instead, the federal agent is arrested â&#x20AC;&#x201D; charged in a state court with the crime of enforcing federal gun laws. Farfetched? Not as much as you might think. The scenario would become conceivable if legislation passed by Missouriâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Republican-led Legislature is signed into law by Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon. The Missouri legislation is perhaps the most extreme
example of a statesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rights movement that has been spreading across the nation. States are increasingly adopting laws that purport to nullify federal laws â&#x20AC;&#x201D; setting up intentional legal conflicts, directing local police not to enforce federal laws and, in rare cases, even threatening criminal charges for federal agents who dare to do their jobs. An Associated Press analysis found that about four-fifths of the states now have enacted local laws that directly reject or ignore federal laws on marijuana use, gun control, health insurance requirements and identificaPlease see STATES, page 2A
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Douglas County Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lts. Gary Squires and Steve Grammer retired on Friday. Together they had served more than 50 years in the department. Page 3A
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Lawrence residents John Ross and Harry Herington, Kristen Samp, a Class A teaching pro at the Lawrence Country Club, and Pat Hoppa, of Prairie Village, will take part in the Hundred Hole Hike, a national network of golf marathons that encourages people to walk six rounds of golf in one day to raise money for charity.
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