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U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree denied a request by six Kansans to intervene in the upcoming election. Crabtree said the plaintiffs, who claimed the devices were vulnerable to Chinese communists, were “long on suspicion, contingency and hypothesis, but short on facts.”
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Sept. 15 is the International Day of Democracy. Alarms are sounding that democracy in America — once the example to the world — is in danger.
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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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Missouri's Secretary of State defends a new election law requiring anyone who wants to cast a ballot to have a form of government-issued photo identification. Two lawsuits have already been filed to block the restrictions from taking effect.
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Even if you do not have a government-issued photo ID and haven't voted in decades, Missouri Secretary of State John Ashcroft says if you're registered you can still cast a ballot in November.
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Starting this weekend, Missouri voters will need to present a government-issued photo ID when casting their ballots. But voting rights groups have filed lawsuits claiming the law is unconstitutional.
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Nine Kansas counties must hand recount votes for the defeated state constitutional amendment on abortion after advocates raised $120,000 to pay for the effort. The largely symbolic recount won't change the result of the election.
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Kobach lost the general race for governor to Laura Kelly in 2018, leaving some Republicans speculating he could cost them the attorney general's office if he landed the nomination.
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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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Douglas Frank claims he "negotiated a deal" with Jay Aschroft regarding allegations of voter fraud. The secretary of state’s office says that’s not true.
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Voter suppression has a long history, according to political scientist Darius Watson, and it is constantly taking on new forms.
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How voter suppression started and the many forms it takes, and interest in genealogy has increased during the pandemic.