By Marc J. Randazza
My client, Vermin Love Supreme (yes, that is his real name), recently filed to run for Attorney General of Kansas.
Supreme is performance artist and a political activist who has run for U.S. President many times, and recently announced that he wished to run for Kansas Attorney General: Kansas literally has no residency requirements, either by statue or in the Kansas Constitution, and no requirement that the Kansas AG be an attorney.
In fact, despite having some of the most restrictive voter access laws in the country (the District of Kansas sanctioned Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach in relation to the lawsuit regarding whether Kansas’ requirement that voters must produce documentary evidence of citizenship is constitutional) Kansas has no qualification requirements for who may run for office, which means that six teenagers are currently running there.
However, the Kansas Elections Board disqualified Supreme, declaring he was not a resident, despite the fact that he had a rental property in Kansas and there are no requirements that he be a resident anyway. In the hearing directly after Supreme’s hearing, the Elections Board found that a similarly situated candidate who also recently moved to Kansas for the purposes of running in the election (and listed a home that was in foreclosure as his residence, was qualified.
This afternoon, we filed a complaint and a request for injunctive relief putting Supreme back on the ballot.
If you are a Republican voter who wished to vote for Supreme in the Republican primary, please reach out and contact me. Mr. Supreme has claims, obviously. However, Kansas voters who were deprived of the right to vote for him have claims of their own – and I would love to talk to anyone who fits that description. There’s no riches in it for you, but you may want to lend your voice to the matter.
If you’re interested in the pleadings:
Complaint – Vermin Love Supreme v. Kansas State Elections Board
