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As Kansas Republicans delivered their closing pitch to Johnson County voters at an Overland Park rally on Saturday, state Rep. Sean Tarwater stressed the importance of maintaining the party’s ...
The 2024 KC Voter Guide is a collaboration between The Kansas City Star and the KC Media Collective. All voter guide content is free and outside of the paywall. Johnson County voters will have the ...
Johnson County had held off on destroying ballots from the 2019 election onward because of requests by Hayden, who has called them potential evidence. But recently, patience has appeared to wear thin.
In April 2024, Johnson County Sheriff Calvin Hayden claimed that he "had a search warrant in hand" when local election officials "decided in a hurry to destroy" ballots from 2019, 2020 and 2021, despite Kansas state law ordering the regular destruction of old ballots, and the local officials having informed Hayden in November 2023 that they ...
That is especially apparent in Johnson County, where the local Republican and Democratic party organizations have both posted voter guides to give a partisan imprimatur to favored candidates in ...
As such, Trump is the first Republican to win the White House without Johnson County since William McKinley in 1896, and the first since Kansas achieved statehood to win without Riley County, home to Fort Riley and Kansas State University, and Shawnee County, home to the state capital of Topeka.
As such, it is much friendlier to Democrats than the rest of the state. It was the only district in Kansas carried by Democrats in 2008, 2016, and 2020. The largest county, Johnson, has traditionally leaned Republican, though the brand of Republicanism practiced in the county has traditionally been a moderate one.
The vote put some Kansas Republicans on the defensive over the issue, especially in Johnson County, the highly-populated core of the 3rd District, where 68% of voters opposed the amendment.