Nearly half of Kansas’ registered voters turned out in first electoral test of US abortion rights
Most primary elections only turn out a small portion of the electorate – but this year’sThis year’s primary ballot included a question to decide whether to stop the state’s constitution from protecting abortion rights, which could have paved the way for the state legislature to completely ban abortion.the anti-abortion measure – and turned out in record numbers to do so.
After the US supreme court overturned federal protections for abortion in June, the Kansas primary was the first electoral test of abortion rights in the country. Not only was turnout high, but prior to the election Kansans were also registering to vote in record numbers. As of July 2022, weeks after the supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, about 1.9m people registered to vote – comparable only to the 2020 general election when Donald Trump was vying for a second term.
More than 47% of registered voters participated on Tuesday, with tens of thousands of votes still to be counted.
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