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WSU Hughes Metropolitan Complex- Lowe Auditorium
Come to help us welcome America‘s newest citizens and encourage their first exercise of rights as they register to vote. This is always a moving and rewarding experience, one you‘ll want to repeat many times! The ceremony takes place at WSU Hughes MetroPlex Lowe Auditorium, 5501 East 29th St. Wichita, KS 66226 Parking is easy and accessible. Enter the parking lot on the south side of the building off 29th Street East. Email voterservices@lwvwichita.org if you have questions. See you there.
Advanced Learning Library (ALL)
Gloria Farha Flenje Focht will present a talk about SCR 1611, a measure which will be on the ballot in August 2026 to change the selection of Kansas Supreme Court Judges to a direct election.
Kansas is the only state in the Union in which members of the state supreme court are nominated not by the governor but by a nominating commission controlled by the Kansas Bar Association (KBA).
SCR 1611 will be put on the ballot in August 2026 for a vote of the people. If passed with a simple majority, elections for the Kansas Supreme Court would begin in 2028, and Kansas would join 22 other states that use direct elections for their state supreme courts. While several states use a nominating commission, only Kansas has a commission controlled by the state bar.
The amendment would mean that justices would be elected by popular vote for six-year terms through staggered elections beginning in 2028.
About the speaker:
Gloria Farha Flenje Focht is the immediate past chair of the Kansas Supreme Court Nominating Committee, a past president for the Wichita Bar Association and a longtime community leader for the Wichita area.