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Eugene

(62,674 posts)
Tue Apr 11, 2017, 10:28 PM Apr 2017

Kansas special election: Republican Ron Estes wins in 4th District congressional race

Source: McClatchy News

Republican Ron Estes wins in 4th District congressional race

BY DION LEFLER, BRYAN LOWRY, DANIEL SALAZAR AND JONATHAN SHORMAN
McClatchy News

Update 9:43 p.m.: The Associated Press says Republican Ron Estes has won the special House election to replace Mike Pompeo. He has 52 percent of the vote to Democrat James Thompson’s 47 percent with 519 of 620 precincts counted.

Update: 9:35 p.m.: Sedgwick County election officials had counted about half the county’s votes by 9:30 as some problems cropped up with the county’s new voting machines.

Election Commissioner Tabitha Lehman said she “kind of expected” that counting would be somewhat slower as workers adapt to the new technology, which uses a touch-screen machine to produce a ballot card that is then fed into a separate counting machine.

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Read more: http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/election/article144065034.html
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Kansas special election: Republican Ron Estes wins in 4th District congressional race (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2017 OP
"problems cropped up" FoxNewsSucks Apr 2017 #1
Agreed. TheKangaroo May 2017 #3
Especially with Kobach as Secretary of State tikka Apr 2017 #2

FoxNewsSucks

(10,810 posts)
1. "problems cropped up"
Tue Apr 11, 2017, 10:36 PM
Apr 2017

Yeah, right.

Those voting machines are rigged. I don't believe this election, and I'll never EVER believe that Brownhole's re-election was won fairly.

tikka

(779 posts)
2. Especially with Kobach as Secretary of State
Wed Apr 12, 2017, 03:22 AM
Apr 2017

He resisted any kind of review of election results when a Wichita State statistician, Beth Anderson, found anomalies.

His Crosscheck system is used to kick people off the voter roll.

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