Kansans for Secure Elections is an election policy advocacy organization under the umbrella of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a 501(c)(4) funding and fiscal sponsorship organization managed by the Washington, D.C.-based consultancy Arabella Advisors. ^[1] Critics have called the Arabella network of which Kansans for Secure Elections is a part a “half-billion dollar ‘dark money’ network.” ^[2]

There is no publicly available information online about the group outside of an official list of Sixteen Thirty Fund-sponsored groups and a Facebook page. The Facebook page has two posts from March 28, 2018. ^[3]

Kansans for Secure Elections is one of many pop-up “Astroturf” groups created by Arabella Advisors’ fiscal sponsorship entities. Advisors is a dark-money group funded by left-of-center millionaires and billionaires who desire to influence American public policy and social culture. Arabella received $1.6 billion between 2013 and 2017 and used it to fund Sixteen Thirty Fund and other groups. ^[4] Arabella Advisors was one of many left-leaning dark-money groups which quietly influenced the 2018 elections and provided more money to election-related efforts than Republican or conservative-focused advocacy groups. ^[5]