Primary elections assist in choosing political parties' nominees for various positions.
[1] Subject to such exceptions as the Kansas Legislature may prescribe, all citizens of the United States, over the age of eighteen and who are residents of this state, may register to vote as a qualified elector of Kansas.
A special provision allows seventeen-year-olds to register to vote if they will be eighteen before the next statewide general election.
[3] In the event of the death of a political party's nominee for office prior to the date of the general election, a substitute candidate is permitted to have his name placed on the general election ballot.
Such notice must be submitted in writing within five days after the death has occurred and must be signed by at least two members of the political party's state central committee.