KS-GOV: Hundreds of illegally rejected ballots gave Kris Kobach primary win, voting activist says

An election integrity activist in Kansas filed an objection Thursday to Kris Kobach’s candidacy for governor, claiming elections officials illegally rejected more early ballots than Kobach’s margin of victory.

Davis Hammet, the director of the Kansas-based organization Loud Light, told ThinkProgress that the rejected advance mail ballots throw Kobach’s extremely narrow primary win into question. Kobach defeated current Gov. Jeff Colyer (R) in August’s primary by just 343 votes out of more than 317,000 cast.

Hammet alleges that Kansas election officials illegally tossed ballots over signature matching issues and because of voters’ unaffiliated party status.

“This is ridiculous how… legitimate ballots are being thrown out,” Hammet said. “This primary was in essence an illegitimate, unconstitutional election.”

There’s no way to know exactly how many ballots were illegally rejected across the state. Kansas elections are run at the county level, and county officials are not required to report why they reject provisional ballots in a primary election.


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