The League of Women Voters has spent decades suing states that require voters to prove they are citizens.
Now a Kansas chapter is under federal referral for what they were doing at two local high schools.
What they put on those tables – and the targets they chose – is now in a US attorney's hands.
Kobach Issues Federal Referral in Voter Registration Fraud Case Involving Starbucks Gift Cards
Kansas Attorney Kris Kobach hit the League of Women Voters of Kansas and its Leavenworth County chapter with a cease-and-desist Friday, demanding they "immediately stop offering cash, gift cards, or any other item of value in connection with voter registration or voting."
The order came after Republican state Rep. Pat Proctor flagged May 2026 registration drives at Lansing High School and Leavenworth High School, where LWV volunteers set up tables carrying a sign that read, "Register to vote get a Starbucks gift card."
The sign – Starbucks logo and all – showed up in photos the League posted to its own Facebook page.
Federal law is unambiguous: paying any person to register to vote or cast a ballot carries penalties of up to $10,000 in fines and five years in federal prison.
Kobach referred the matter to U.S. Attorney Ryan Kriegshauser, the Kansas District's top federal prosecutor, who has earned a reputation as an aggressive enforcer of election crimes since taking office.
The Kansas Attorney General also demanded the League hand over "all records relating to the activity, including financial records and registration forms collected," along with a full accounting of every instance across the state where items of value changed hands for voter registrations.
LWV officials did not respond to requests for comment.
Proctor – who chairs the Kansas House Elections Committee and is running for Kansas secretary of state – said the local chapter did not merely cross a legal line.
"They sprinted across it full speed," he said.
When Proctor posted his concerns about the operation on his own Facebook page, League of Women Voters members liked and loved the post.
"The brazenness of it is what really shocked me," Proctor said.
https://twitter.com/RealPatProctor/status/2100645460771741832
The Soros-Funded Voter Fraud Network Paying Students to Register at Schools Across America
The League of Women Voters is not a well-meaning civic club that stumbled into a technicality.
The organization has routinely joined forces with the ACLU to sue states attempting to keep illegal aliens off voter rolls – fighting voter ID requirements, proof-of-citizenship laws, and anything else that might introduce accountability into the registration process.
Proctor called the LWV what it is: "the axis of ballot harvesting."
The Kansas scheme is not an isolated incident.
New Voters – a left-wing group founded by Jahnavi Rao, a former Democratic National Committee youth engagement director – openly advertises prize packages to students who run registration drives on high school campuses.
Prizes include Amazon gift cards and name-brand merchandise.
Rao later served as deputy campaign manager for a Pennsylvania Democrat, then joined the Biden White House, where she discussed "youth priorities and collaboration opportunities" with the Second Gentleman and cabinet officials.
New Voters now boasts operations in 42 states.
The same network Proctor described as "Soros-funded monsters trying to subvert the integrity of our elections" is already running these operations in schools across the country with midterms weeks away.
DOJ Charges 16 for Election Fraud in Nationwide 2026 Midterm Crackdown
While the League was setting up Starbucks gift card tables in Kansas, the DOJ was charging 16 people across the country with illegal voting, fraudulent voter registration, wire fraud, and related election crimes.
Attorney General Todd Blanche made the message direct: "If you are gaming the election system, voting illegally, or committing voter fraud, you are breaking the law."
The defendants included illegal aliens from Haiti, Mexico, India, and the Democratic Republic of Congo who cast ballots in federal elections while falsely claiming U.S. citizenship.
A Venezuelan national with DACA status voted nine times between 2008 and 2024.
In Kansas, a Peruvian national was indicted in September for voting in a federal election without citizenship.
The Left has spent years insisting that election interference is a fantasy – a Republican obsession invented to justify suppressing voters.
What Kansas just uncovered is a table at a public high school, run by the country's most prominent self-described "nonpartisan" voting-rights organization, with teenagers lining up to trade their voter registration for a coffee-shop gift card.
A Starbucks sign, a Facebook photo, a cease-and-desist letter, and a federal referral – caught in the open, by the organization that has spent decades insisting it only exists to protect democracy.
The League's members liked Proctor's Facebook post calling them out.
They knew exactly what they were doing.
Sources:
- M.D. Kittle, "Kansas League of Women Voters Accused of Buying High School Voter Registrations," The Federalist, September 28, 2026.
- Staff, "DOJ Announces Charges in 7 States for Illegal Alien Voting," Breitbart, September 20, 2026.
- Staff, "DOJ Charges 16 in Nationwide Sweep Over Alleged Illegal Voting and Voter Registration," Townhall, September 20, 2026.
- Mary Margaret Olohan, "DOJ Charges 4 Noncitizens with Election Fraud in PA," Daily Signal, September 24, 2026.