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    Voting rights group says 6,570 Kansas registrations purged

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    FILE - In this Jan . 15, 2015, file photo, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is seen at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Kansas is asking a federal appeals court to keep thousands of people who haven't yet provided the documents to prove they are U.S. citizens from voting in November's election. Judges from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver are set to hear arguments Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016, in the legal fight over how the state enforces its proof-of-citizenship requirement for voters who register at motor vehicle offices. Kobach says it doesn't make sense to hold people registering at motor vehicle offices to a different standard than those registering elsewhere. (AP Photo/John Hanna, File)

    WICHITA — The League of Women Voters says Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has discarded as of August the registrations of about 6,570 prospective voters under a rule that allows him to toss them after 90 days because they did not prove citizenship.

    FILE - In this Jan . 15, 2015, file photo, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is seen at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Kansas is asking a federal appeals court to keep thousands of people who haven't yet provided the documents to prove they are U.S. citizens from voting in November's election. Judges from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver are set to hear arguments Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016, in the legal fight over how the state enforces its proof-of-citizenship requirement for voters who register at motor vehicle offices. Kobach says it doesn't make sense to hold people registering at motor vehicle offices to a different standard than those registering elsewhere. (AP Photo/John Hanna, File)
    In this Jan . 15, 2015, file photo, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is seen at the Statehouse in Topeka. Kobach says it doesn’t make sense to hold people registering at motor vehicle offices to a different standard than those registering elsewhere. (AP Photo/John Hanna, File)

    Those prospective voters likely registered at some place other than a motor vehicle office without providing citizenship documents, so their voting rights are not protected by recent court orders. They would need to register again to vote in November. Kansas requires proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote.

    The Secretary of State’s office says it could not immediately confirm the number.

    The League purchased copies of the Kansas voter suspense list in March and in August, and compared them to calculate the number of missing registrations.

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