AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas threw out mail votes at an abnormally high rate during the nation’s first primary of 2022, rejecting nearly 23,000 ballots outright under tougher voting rules that are part of a…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican lawmakers moved ahead Thursday with trying to end a three-day grace period for Kansas voters to mail in their ballots, advancing a measure that one voting-rights activist called “madness.” A…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republicans used their supermajority Friday to win Kansas Senate approval for a redistricting plan that likely would make it harder for the state’s only Democrat in Congress to win reelection this…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats were picking up the pieces Thursday following the collapse of their top-priority voting rights legislation, with some shifting their focus to a narrower bipartisan effort to repair laws Donald Trump exploited…

TOPEKA — After a 2021 legislative session packed with election proposals, Kansas officials and advocacy groups again are looking at both election integrity and accessibility issues. Election laws passed last year by the Republican-led Legislature,…

Republicans in the fast-growing suburbs north of Dallas had a scare last year. Democrat Joe Biden came within a single percentage point of then-President Donald Trump in the congressional district represented by Republican Van Taylor.…

Tuesday’s election results brought a bit of drama, with at least two races too close to call. The Iola City Council and school board will have some new faces in January, as voters made their…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican Glenn Youngkin won the Virginia governor’s race early today, tapping into culture war fights over schools and race to unite former President Donald Trump’s most fervent supporters with enough suburban…

Mandey Coltrane believes her experiences in the military and in human resources make her a good fit for the school board. “Both of those roles are about representing and working for someone else, not just…

Mark Peters was born in Iola, worked in Iola all his life and chose to stick around after retiring in 2014. So he’s seen the city’s successes, setbacks, and challenges that lie ahead. Iola’s not…