Tag: voting

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — As an election supervisor and poll worker for more than 20 years, Robert Bailey routinely mailed in his ballot early, confident that voting problems elsewhere that he read about would have…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — More than 1 million Kansas residents voted in the state’s general election earlier this month to set a record for a non-presidential year. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach said Friday…

Long before President Clinton signed the National Voter Registration Act in 1993, Kansas was leading a charge to get citizens to the polls. For decades, our secretaries of state campaigned for such reforms as advance…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal monitor will be sent to observe voting in Dodge City in the November election, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said in a court filing. His notification to the court came…

There’s a reason transactions over the Internet continue to boom: They’re easy. And private. Or at least in theory. Which is why Brian McClendon, a co-founder of Google Earth and Google Maps, has had such…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Democrat running to replace Kris Kobach as Kansas secretary of state is trying to get voters to repudiate the conservative Republican’s political legacy of tough voter identification laws, which Kobach…

With a little more than a month before the Nov. 6 elections, now is a good time to plan how you’ll vote. Maybe you’re a traditionalist, someone who likes to wade into the polling booth…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The chances of a Kansas voter’s ballot being counted might depend on which county he or she lives in — especially if they vote by mail. The issue of counties having…

It passed under our radar, but Sunday was officially Women’s Equality Day, to mark, in part, the granting of women the right to vote just 88 years ago with passage of the 19th Amendment. It…