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To be close, to be suspenseful, certainly, we're gonna be watching it. and i think a lot of folks across the country, on both sides, we're gonna be watching it. to find out more about what's going on the ground in kansas, let's go to kansas city reporter, katie bernard. she covers the kansas legislature and state governor for the kansas city star. katie, thank you for joining us. all eyes on your state tomorrow. let me just ask you this. if yes winds tomorrow, as we mentioned, it just says, okay, there is no right in the state constitution to have an abortion but, legally, doesn't mean anythin...

Government for the kansas city star. katie, thank you for joining us. all eyes on your state tomorrow. let me just ask you this. if yes wins tomorrow, as we mentioned, it just says, okay, there is no right in the state constitution to have an abortion but, legally, doesn't mean anything more than that in the moment. so, if yes wins, what would happen? >> yeah, so lawmakers have been very coy about what they will or will do after the amendment passes. but what we do know is that we have a historic abortion legislature with the gop supermajority. so, there is very much still a chance that they w...

Vetoes. and the house has done the same. so, a lot of the traditional knowledge in the state, if this amendment passes, it will make it harder in swing districts for republicans to win reelection in the house. and if they lose that supermajority, we it likely they may be able to pass severe abortion restrictions. >> again, we'll be watching this one closely tomorrow night, 8 pm eastern. we're gonna start to get some numbers out of kansas. katie bernard, from the kansas city star, we thank you for joining us. appreciate that. and amy walter of the cook political report is gonna rejoin us now. a...

Operate in kansas, and then, likely a ban on dilation and evacuation abortion. >> as you mentioned, the state legislature republican control, there is a democratic governor of canvas kansas right now, laura kelly, she is running for reelection. if this passes, if she's opposed to it, and she's reelected, does that complicate what happens at all, in terms of what the future of abortion law in kansas would be? >> it will depend on the house election that we've got coming up this fall. currently, the senate has a two third majority, in the last two years, over writing a lot of vetoes. and the hou...

Thank you so much. voters in kansas will be the first in the nation to cast a ballot on abortion rights today. a ballot measure asked voters to decide whether they want to remove abortion protection from the state's constitution. if it passes, the state's conservative legislature can push ahead, with strict abortion regulations. if it fails, lawmakers would be barred from imposing new restrictions. abortion in kansas currently legal up to 22 weeks. joining me is katie bernard, state house reporter for the "kansas city star." thank you for joining me this morning. >> thank you for having me. ...