Elections

With all the World Cup coverage in the spotlight, it may be easy to forget that an important Kansas election is just around the corner. Election Day is Tuesday, Aug. 4, but voting by mail or in person at advance...

Twenty-one Johnson County elected officials have signed a letter asking Johnson County Election Commissioner Connie Schmidt to reinstate eight advance voting sites for this year's general election. The same eight sites are slated to be closed during the Aug. 4...

A couple of weeks after Mayor Curt Skoog announced his plans to run for governor of Kansas, reactions from officials, colleagues and opponents remain mixed. His decision to run in the Democratic Primary, announced earlier this month, seemed to upend...

By Zach Boblitt | Kansas Public Radio Kansas used to elect justices, but that changed after a 1950s scheme by then-Gov. Fred Hall. Now, there’s a statewide vote in August that would return to directly electing justices for the state’s...

The forum was KCUR’s Up to Date, and the mission — as far as the three Democratic candidates running for governor were concerned — was to set themselves apart from each other in ways that voters can remember until...

The Johnson County Post is hosting a live, in-person forum featuring three candidates vying to be chair of the Board of County Commissioners. This is a nonpartisan race, and the top two vote-getters on Aug. 4 will advance to November's...

The Aug. 4 primary election slate is set, and Johnson County voters will have choices for federal, state and county-level offices on their ballots. As the Post has done for nearly 15 years, we'll be asking candidates about the issues...

The issue of early voting in the August 4 primaries became a full-blown controversy this week, after Johnson Countians learned of plans to close eight advance in-person polling locations that had been available for the last big federal election...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas is calling on Johnson County's Interim Election Commissioner Connie Schmidt to reverse a decision to eliminate eight advance voting sites ahead of the Aug. 4 primary. In a letter to Schmidt dated May...

Without much fanfare, two-term Johnson County Commissioner Janeé Hanzlick announced on her Facebook page May 8 that she won’t run for another four-year term. Although that announcement may have seemed abrupt — she gave no reason at the time —...

The upcoming Aug. 4 party primary ballots are going to be … a lot. With 11 Democrats and two Republicans running for U.S. Senate, and seven Republican and three Democratic tickets for governor/lieutenant governor, voters will have a lot of...

A recent decision to eliminate eight sites from the county’s roster of advance voting places drew protesters to the Johnson County Election Office in Olathe on Tuesday morning. Over 60 people turned out to hold signs in front of the...