We may all love the internet, the cute memes, the quick jabs, a friendly LOL. But how grateful we all have to be for fantastic state house reporting that works hard to keep us informed. Today, in the Topeka Capital Journal, Jonathan Shorman his a home run where the internet and real world collide. Dodge City, Kansas, has been home to controversy, for a decision by the county to move the polling place outside of town. While Kansas Democratic party members, and state elected have tried to work on solutions it turns out the local county clerk had another response: “LOL”

After the ACLU objected to Dodge City’s single, out-of-town polling place, the local official in charge of elections forwarded to the state an ACLU letter asking her to publicize a voter help line. “LOL,” she wrote in an email to Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s office. As Election Day approaches, concerns are being raised in Kansas over voting rights and access to the polls. The movement and elimination of some polling places is sparking fears that casting a ballot may be more difficult for some this year.

The ACLU asked that the county clerk do more to help inform voters of the change, and to work on making sure new voters were aware — apparently this request was funny; enough so that bringing it up made her laugh out loud.