Who approved and paid for mailing about 277,000 voter registration forms arranged by Gov. Laura Kelly in 2020?
Is the Kansas Department of Health and Environment stonewalling open records request?
Is the Kansas Department of Health and Environment stonewalling an open records request to identify who approved and paid for mailings of about 277,000 voter registration forms arranged by Gov. Laura Kelly in 2020?
My recent KORA request started on Feb. 29 and was revised when the initial response said no records existed.
Here are the questions ignored for several weeks now by KDHE:
The following questions focus on two extracts from the Memorandum of Understanding signed by Gov. Kelly:
1. “the Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF) mailed voter registration applications to 150,512 applicants and clients”
2. “KDHE sent additional 127,255 voter registration applications to unduplicated applicants and clients in September 2020.”
If possible, under KORA I’d like to obtain the documents answering the questions below:
1. Someone with statutory signature authority approved the expenditures of funds for these two mailings. Are there documents that reflect the approval of expenditure of funds for these two mailings including the name of the person with signature authority?
2. Before these two mailings were possible, someone in authority had to request a list of names to target. Are there documents that describe the specification of the parameters used to select (or to reject) individuals for the mailings? The result from the database query should state the number of names found from the database query based on these parameters. These numbers would have been needed to tell the vendor what was needed.
3. The names (or batches of names) with counts should have been part of the submission to the vendor, Central Point. Are there documents that describe the specifications of the mailings and describe parameters for when they should be mailed?
4. Are there “completion documents” from the vendor confirming completion of the mailings?
So far, the only response has been “crickets.”
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