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It's ironic that while the reassuring voices of the Left keep telling us there is no voter fraud, voter fraud keeps raising its ugly head.
This time it's in Kansas.
The left-wing League of Women Voters is on notice after allegedly trying to pay high school students to register to vote earlier this year in Kansas.
That's right: the moms are targeting the kids.
Be informed, not misled.
On Friday, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach sent a cease-and-desist letter to the League of Women Voters of Kansas and the LWV chapter in Leavenworth County, demanding the groups “immediately stop offering cash, gift cards, or any other item of value in connection with voter registration or voting…”
The Federalist says, "The Republican AG also referred the matter to Ryan Kriegshauser, U.S. Attorney for the Kansas District, who in his short time in the position has earned a reputation as an aggressive prosecutor of election fraud. Kobach advised the LWV that the state also reserves the right “to bring any appropriate enforcement action following further investigation.”
In a press release, Kobach explained that social media posts from the Leavenworth chapter of the League advertised gift card giveaways to students in exchange for their voter registrations, including a photo of a table sign that read, “Register to vote get a Starbucks gift card.”
The Letter
TOPEKA – (September 25, 2026) – Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach today issued a cease-and-desist letter to the League of Women Voters of Kansas and Leavenworth following a complaint from House Elections Committee Chairman Rep. Pat Proctor. Proctor sounded the alarm about voter-registration drives held in May 2026 at Lansing High School and Leavenworth High School.
Public posts from the local League chapter advertised and depicted the distribution of $5 Starbucks gift cards to students who registered to vote, including a table sign reading, “Register to vote get a $5 Starbucks gift card.”
Federal law makes it a crime to knowingly pay a person “either for registration to vote or for voting.”
The ban applies to payments of any size, including a gift card payment. Violations are punishable by a fine of up to $10,000 and imprisonment of up to five years. Kansas law likewise prohibits offering any benefit to induce a person to vote.
“Paying people to register or to vote is illegal, period,” Kobach said. “The size of the gift card does not matter. These prohibitions exist to protect the integrity of our elections and public confidence in the results. Groups may encourage registration and help eligible Kansans complete the process. They may not buy registrations.”
The letter directs the League of Women Voters of Leavenworth County to:
- Immediately stop offering cash, gift cards, or any other item of value in connection with voter registration or voting;
- Preserve all records relating to the activity, including financial records and registration forms collected;
- Identify every instance in Kansas in which the organization distributed cash, gift cards, or other items of value in exchange for voter registration or voting; and
- Respond in writing within 30 days with that information and confirm that the practice has stopped.
The Office of the Attorney General is referring the matter to the United States Attorney for the District of Kansas for investigation and review. The State reserves the right to pursue any appropriate enforcement action after further investigation.
A naysayer may say, "Is this really that big of a deal?"
Via The Federalist:
Kansas House Elections Committee Chairman Pat Proctor first raised red flags about the voter-registration drives held in May 2026 at Lansing High School and Leavenworth High School in the Republican’s district.
As of Sunday, the League’s Facebook page boasted photos from the May events. In one picture, a volunteer smiles behind a registration table. The Starbucks sign, complete with the coffee giant’s logo, is visible on the table in front of her. In separate photos, young people hold what appear to be Starbucks gift cards, apparently post-registration.
Brendan Fischer, a longtime far-left activist who serves as director of strategic investigations at the Campaign Legal Center, agreed that federal law bars payments to individuals in exchange for their registrations or votes, according to the Kansas Reflector.
“Given the breadth of the law, well-intentioned groups seeking to encourage civic participation can accidentally cross a legal line,” Fischer told the publication, which laughingly described the Campaign Legal Center (read more about the left-leaning group at InfluenceWatch) as a “nonpartisan legal organization focused on democracy.” That’s not surprising. The Reflector is owned by the left-wing States Newsroom, a nonprofit network “launched with the backing of the Hopewell Fund, another liberal dark-money group,” according to The Washington Post.
Proctor, who is running for Kansas secretary of state, said the League of Women Voters’ local chapter didn’t just cross the line, “they sprinted across it full speed.”
“The brazenness of it is what really shocked me,” the Republican election integrity warrior said. When Proctor posted his concerns about the event on his Facebook page, League members actually liked and loved the post.
Who is behind this campaign to "use" students?
New Voters founder is Jahnavi Rao, former head of Youth Engagement and Millennial Voter Participation for the Democratic National Committee. According to a White House Domestic Policy Council report on the left-wing ideological takeover of the Smithsonian Institution, she worked with College Democrats of America Chapters to implement voter registration events at college graduations. Her LinkedIn page notes the same.
Rao then served as Deputy Campaign Manager for a Democratic candidate in Pennsylvania, then as an intern in the Biden White House, where she “discussed youth priorities and collaboration opportunities with the Second Gentleman and various cabinet officials.”
She has been at it for the past decade, boasting that New Voters has engaged tens of thousands of high school students through over 1,000 drives in high schools in 42 states — Including Kansas.
Takeaway
This is not a small matter.
These are the “nonpartisan” organizations working to harvest young votes for Democrats and leftist causes. And they’re offering some “swag” to accomplish their mission.
“They’re all part of the ecosystem of groups, the Soros-funded monsters trying to subvert the integrity of our elections,” said the Kansas state representative.
There have been some high-profile cases of voter registration and other election fraud crimes over the past few weeks.
Earlier this month, law enforcement officials arrested James Brass, 47, also known as “Lord,” of Victorville, California, on a federal grand jury indictment charging him and two other defendants with paying people on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles to sign petitions using stolen identities of registered voters to qualify initiatives on ballots in California elections. Also charged in the two-count indictment, according to the Department of Justice, were two petition circulators who worked for Brass: Courtney Price, 49, of Jacksonville, Florida, and Jateisha Herron, 33, of Boron, California.
Elsewhere, a federal grand jury’s indictment charged Bridget Johnson, 53, of Cotton Valley, La., with fraudulent voter registration and voting by an illegal alien, and Michael Wedderburn, 52, of Jamaica, with voting as an illegal alien.
Also this month, the DOJ announced charges against 16 people in connection with illegal voting, illegal voter registration, and related election-fraud schemes from Idaho to New Jersey.
Thomas Jefferson once said, “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”
Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Bold. Be Faithful. Be Prayerful.
