WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW)—President Donald Trump's executive order on Wednesday makes changes to voting and how votes are counted. It requires proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and does away with a grace period for mail-in ballots. Voting leaders in the State of Kansas sa y there is a lot to unpack and study before any changes would or could be made in the Sunflower state. Venomous rattlesnakes slither out as temperatures warm in Kansas "We just don't know yet," said Sedgwick County election commissioner Laura Rainwater. "And nothing has changed here until we get our direction from the Secretary of State's office." After being asked about possible changes, the Kansas Secretary of State's office sent a statement to KSN. The Kansas Secretary of State statement says the executive order mirrors much of what Kansas already does. "The president's EO makes points that states should have been doing for years," said the statement. "Kansas was a leading state in enacting proof of citizenship. While the courts have enjoined the state from enforcing this law, the intent of the EO makes clear that every voter must provide documentary evidence of citizenship. Kansas has also strengthened voter roll maintenance efforts in the past few years, and we appreciate the EO's requirement that federal agencies assist with these efforts. Meanwhile, some voter groups wonder if the Presidential executive order will disenfranchise some voters. "My hope is that we can mobilize and inform people to actually get them to the polls," said Nancy Brown, co-president of the League of Women Voters of the Wichita Metro. " To help them understand that mail-in balloting is not necessarily going to work for them at this point." Brown says the three-day grace period for mail-in ballots is a big deal. If your mail-in ballot is late, even with a valid postmark identifying it as meeting the deadline, it will not be counted. "It also disadvantages the woman with three small children who doesn't have childcare and ends up having to take them to the voting, to the polling place," said Brown. "It will disadvantage people who are, perhaps, rural and their mailing address may be fixed to a particular town, but they may be 25 miles outside of town. Sometimes the mail just can be very slow." Brown says there may not be much change in Kansas because the federal executive order mirrors much of what has already been done there. "We already have a stringent identification process for both registration and for being able to vote," said Brown. "This needs to be studied more." Rainwater says she is also is studying legislation currently in Topeka on the state level. "One of the big bills that we really have been closely watching is a bill that would affect special elections," said Rainwater. "As you know, we have four special elections from February 25th through May 18, and that's a lot of special elections in one time frame. Of course, I tried to get all of them on one, single date, but jurisdictions just couldn't make it happen. So it would be a much better use of taxpayer money, it would be less confusing for voters, it would be easier to recruit polling places because those polling places aren't always available, and it would just for the efficiency of operations if all special elections in the spring were held on one date." ...read more read less