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Elections

By Sherman Smith  The executive director of the Kansas Republican Party said Monday that an event at a GOP fundraiser Friday night that allowed people to kick and beat the president in effigy was the result of “poor judgment” by an “outside...
By Sherman Smith Kansas Republicans have condemned a fundraiser Friday night where attendees paid to kick and beat an effigy of President Joe Biden, distancing themselves from extremists who have seized control of the party. The Biden-bashing antics were part of...
In recent election years, Kansas presidential primaries have been few and far between. In fact, many people eligible to vote this year may had not even been born the last time the state ran a primary, in 1992. The only...
The ballots from past years that Johnson County had been preserving at the request of Sheriff Calvin Hayden were ultimately shredded by county election officials, who noted that their destruction is required by state law. Ballots from as far back...
A lawyer representing the Michigan-based voting software company frequently cited by Johnson County Sheriff Calvin Hayden as the missing link in his years-long probe into local election procedures has sent a warning letter to Hayden. Overland Park attorney Rick Guinn...
The contest for the county’s top prosecutor widened even further last week with the announcement that David Greenwald, Senior Assistant District Attorney in Douglas County will run. The addition of Greenwald brings the number of candidates to four and...
Johnson County Election Commissioner Fred Sherman’s decision to mail more than 400,000 applications for a by-mail ballot last year is now reverberating through the Kansas Statehouse, as a committee headed by Sen. Mike Thompson debates a bill that would...
The Johnson County Election Office will get some security improvements this year, due to its participation in a grant program offered through the Kansas Secretary of State’s office. The security measures are mostly related to equipment storage and internal procedures...
The filing deadline is still six months away, but a few Johnson County races are already shaping up to be hotly contested. The contests for Johnson County’s sheriff and district attorney each have attracted two candidates to challenge the incumbent...
By Stephen Koranda and Calen Moore The Kansas Supreme Court has revived a challenge to a state law that caused advocacy groups to cancel voter registration drives. The justices ruled Friday that the Kansas Court of Appeals wrongly threw out a...
County commissioners have taken the first step toward compliance with a state law that requires the destruction of ballots from past elections by voting to allow Chairman Mike Kelly to appoint two bipartisan observers to the process. The decision approved...
Leawood City Councilmember Debra Filla has been charged with stealing a campaign sign last month and will face arraignment in municipal court early next year. In the days leading up to the Nov. 7 election, Filla allegedly stole a campaign...