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Johnson County Sheriff Calvin Hayden has been investigating election results for over a year, but has so far failed to produce any confirmed cases of voter fraud. An open records request revealed only a single case that has been referred to the district attorney, who said there was no evidence to support criminal charges.
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Kansans approved an amendment that allows county sheriffs to be elected and recalled, while an amendment to allow a legislative majority to revoke executive orders is narrowly failing with 99% of precincts reporting.
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Sheriff Darryl Forté has pointed to a nonexistent provision in Missouri's new voting law to limit voter registration efforts inside the Jackson County jail, where hundreds of detainees are potentially eligible voters. Missouri's voter registration deadline is Oct. 12.
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Amid his own fraud investigation, Johnson County sheriff caught telling poll worker to ‘be slippery’Calvin Hayden's office says it's still conducting a months-long investigation into 2020 and 2021 election results in Johnson County, despite a lack of evidence. “I’m really making them mad and I don’t care,” he said of other county officials.
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Two Olathe residents sought a temporary injunction to block the Johnson County Election Office from destroying ballots and other data from the 2020 presidential election, citing unfounded claims about voting integrity.
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Missouri and Kansas voters are headed to the polls for some important elections today. Plus: The Johnson County Sheriff's Office says they've gotten hundreds of tips relating to election fraud, but after a records request from KCUR, they only produced one.
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Johnson County sheriff claimed he got 200 tips of election fraud. A records request yielded only oneFew outside Sheriff Calvin Hayden's office appear to know what he and his department are investigating.
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Johnson County Sheriff Calvin Hayden, who said his office is investigating fraud in the 2020 election without offering specifics or evidence, made requests to have law enforcement involved in upcoming elections, according to a memo written by the county's chief legal counsel.
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Even though there's no evidence of widespread voter fraud anywhere in Kansas, Johnson County Sheriff Calvin Hayden announced at a local GOP gathering that he's assigned an officer to look into complaints about the county's election process.
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Operation Liberation held a rally outside the Jackson County Detention Center on Monday, claiming that widespread "precautionary quarantines" are denying inmates their due process rights. Detention center officials deny the accusations.
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In "Profit and Punishment," Tony Messenger dissects the ways in which America is creating a new model of debtors' prison.
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A federal lawsuit says a school resource officer at a Linn County, Kansas high school repeatedly abused a 15-year-old girl. The former sheriff's deputy, 48-year-old David Huggins, is now serving a 15-year prison sentence.