Spencer Kimball, Executive Director of Emerson College Polling said, “Independent voters favor Governor Kelly over Attorney General Schmidt 46% to 30%. In addition, men and women are voting in nearly opposite ways in the gubernatorial election; men break for Schmidt 5...
Kansas' Top Elections Official Is Running for Governor After Pushing Back on Conspiracy Theories The top elections official in Kansas is running for governor after building his public profile by pushing back against unfounded election conspiracy theories and breaking with fellow Republicans on voting righ...
speaks to the media at his election night party at Rosewood Winery near Pawnee Rock, Kan. Marshall is running for Kansas' open Senate seat. (Travis Heying/The Wichita Eagle via AP, File)
“It clarified the right to vote is a fundamental constitutional right and said when election laws are challenged the courts will apply the highest level of scrutiny to those laws,” Hammet said. Hammet said the ruling is especially important in the aftermath of baseless claims that the 2020...
The law creating the Legislative Compensation Commission also increased the salaries of the state’s judges and elected executive branch officials. A 2019 legislative audit found that most other states paid more and that Kansas was among the bottom 10 in pay for the ...
In battleground House districts, the fields were set for competitive fall contests, while in safe red and blue districts, ideological lines were drawn as candidates duke it out in primaries tantamount to election. As usual, 538 reporters and contributors broke down the election results ...
Value Them Both Releases Statement on Election Results 08.02.22 — Over the last six months, Kansans endured an onslaught of misinformation from radical left organizations that spent millions of out-of-state dollars to spread lies about the Value Them Both Amendment. ...
Kansas reported Friday that its October tax collections fell short of expectations, potentially complicating conservative Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's efforts to win a tough a re-election race after successfully pushing for large personal income tax cuts....
illegally may have voted in the 2016 election. The lawsuits argued that the proof-of-citizenship requirement denied voting rights to thousands of citizens while doing little or nothing to stop fraud. Robinson and a federal appeals court agreed, and the U.S. Supreme Court declined...
expansion proposal as governor. She calls it a “middle-of-the-road” plan that includes a work requirement. It’s an effort to address critics’ concerns — and perhaps lead voters concerned about the issue to break the state Legislature’s GOP supermajority in...