**[Requirements for Serving as a Pollworker]{.underline}**

**[Kansas]{.underline}**

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| **[State Registration Requirement]{.underline}**                      |
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| **[(Exceptions may be found in Student Election Assistant             |
| category)]{.underline}**                                              |
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| Must have qualifications of an elector.                               |
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| *Kan. Stat. Ann. § 25-2804 (Thomson/West 2006).*                      |
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| "Qualifications of an elector" appear to include being a registered   |
| voter.                                                                |
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| *Clayton v. Hill City, 111 Kan. 595, 207 P. 770 (1922).*              |
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| **[Age Requirement]{.underline}**                                     |
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| 18 years.                                                             |
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| *Kan. Const., art. 5, § 1(Thomson/West 2006).*                        |
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| **[Residency Place and Term Required for Voter                        |
| Registration]{.underline}**                                           |
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| Voting area in which he or she seeks to vote.                         |
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| *Kan. Const., art. 5, § 1(Thomson/West 2006).*                        |
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| \"Area\" means territory served by one voting place and may include   |
| part or all of one or more precincts or voting districts.             |
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| *Kan. Stat. Ann.§ 25-2506 (Thomson/West 2006).*                       |
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| **[Residency Requirement for Service (State, County or                |
| Precinct)]{.underline}**                                              |
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| Voting Area or County.                                                |
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| *Kan. Stat. Ann. § 25-2803(a); Kan. Stat. Ann. § 2804(a)              |
| (Thomson/West 2006).* County election officer may establish a pool of |
| trained judges and clerks from the political parties' lists. Judges   |
| and clerks in such pool may serve at voting places other than their   |
| own if:                                                               |
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| \(1\) The party chairpersons have failed to make appropriate          |
| recommendations;                                                      |
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| \(2\) it is impossible to obtain judges and clerks for a voting place |
| in any other way; or                                                  |
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| \(3\) Voting machines are used, in which case the third judge, who    |
| shall be trained in the use of voting machines, need not necessarily  |
| live in the area of the voting place.                                 |
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| \(d\) Any judge or clerk serving in a voting place not located in the |
| area in which such judge or clerk shall be allowed to vote an advance |
| voting ballot, or shall be excused from duties as such judge or clerk |
| to vote at the voting place in the area of their residency.           |
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| *Kan. Stat. Ann. § 25-2804(c) (Thomson/West 2006).*                   |
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| **[Affiliation with Political Party Requirement]{.underline}**        |
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| **[and Process for Nomination as Poll Worker]{.underline}**           |
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| Affiliation Required.                                                 |
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| The county chairman of each of the central committees of the          |
| political parties that polled the largest and second largest number   |
| of votes in the state at the last state election for the office of    |
| governor shall recommend, excluding the supervising judge, one-half   |
| of the persons required for judges of each election board and         |
| one-half of the persons required for clerks of each election board.   |
| In the event that the election board is to have three members, each   |
| such county chairman shall recommend one person for each board.       |
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| *Kan. Stat. Ann. § 25-2802 (Thomson/West 2006).*                      |
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| Such recommendations shall be made in writing and shall be delivered  |
| to the county election officer, if practicable, at least 30 days      |
| before a primary or general election and at least 15 days before a    |
| special election. The county election officer shall appoint the       |
| persons recommended if such persons can qualify and if such           |
| recommendations are timely. From among the judges appointed to each   |
| election board, the supervising judge shall be designated by the      |
| county election officer upon his independent selection.               |
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| *Kan. Stat. Ann. § 25-2803(a), (b), (c) & (d) (Thomson/West 2006).*   |
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| Where a city is divided by a county line, the parties shall specify   |
| at least one person from that portion of the area located within each |
| such county to serve upon the election board of the voting place      |
| serving that area, if such persons are available to be recommended.   |
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| The county election officer of the county in which the smaller        |
| portion of any such city is located shall designate those persons to  |
| be so appointed from the portion of the city in his county. Such      |
| designation shall be transmitted to the county election officer       |
| conducting elections and shall be appointed by him.                   |
|                                                                       |
| *Kan. Stat. Ann.§ 25-2803(e) (Thomson/West 2006).*                    |
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| **[Term Requirements]{.underline}**                                   |
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| No Information Available.                                             |
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| **[Compensation and Hour Requirements]{.underline}**                  |
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| Varies by county, but minimum compensation set by state.              |
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| *Kan. Stat. Ann. § 25-2811 (Thomson/West 2006).*                      |
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| **[Training, Certification and Oath Requirements]{.underline}**       |
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| County must provide training.                                         |
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| *Kan. Stat. Ann. § 25-2806 (Thomson/West 2006).*                      |
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| **[Elected Public Officials Prohibited]{.underline}**                 |
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| No Information Available.                                             |
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| **[Candidates Prohibited]{.underline}**                               |
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| No candidates except candidates for precinct committee people.        |
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| *Kan. Stat. Ann. § 25-2804(b) (Thomson/West 2006).*                   |
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| **[The Effect of Felon Status on Participation]{.underline}**         |
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| Prohibited if convicted of a felony under the laws of any state or of |
| the United States, unless pardoned or restored to civil rights.       |
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| *Kan. Const., Art. 5, § 2 (Thomson/West 2006).*                       |
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| **[The Effect of Mental Incapacitation on                             |
| Participation]{.underline}**                                          |
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| No statutory prohibition.\                                            |
| The legislature may, by law, exclude persons from voting because of   |
| mental illness or commitment to a jail or penal institution.          |
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| *Kan. Const., Art. 5, § 2 (Thomson/West 2006).*                       |
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| **[English Fluency and Literacy Requirement]{.underline}**            |
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| No Information Available.                                             |
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| **[Good Reputation Requirement]{.underline}**                         |
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| No Information Available.                                             |
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| **[Alternative Positions with Different Requirements]{.underline}**   |
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| No Information Available.                                             |
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| **[Student Election Assistant Statute]{.underline}**                  |
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| The county election officer may appoint persons who are at least 16   |
| years of age to serve as election judges or clerks if such persons    |
| meet all other requirements for qualification of an elector. No more  |
| than one person under the age of 18 may be appointed to each election |
| board.                                                                |
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| *Kan. Stat. Ann. § 25-2804(b) (Thomson/West 2006).*                   |
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