Sometimes in the course of understanding Illinois, it helps to look beyond its borders to ponder issues in other states.

Today we start by looking a few hundred miles west to Kansas, where Republican Secretary of State Scott Schwab – also a 2026 gubernatorial candidate – finds himself at odds with the U.S. Department of Justice in a manner that should be familiar to observers of the Illinois State Board of Elections.

As Stateline’s Jonathan Sherman reported Monday ( tinyurl.com/DOJrequests ), the feds have asked at least 27 states to submit voter data. ISBE waived the $500 fee it would typically charge to provide the datasets it already sells to political committees and government bodies, but will not hand over birthdates, Social Security numbers or other state identifiers

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