General Election Planned November 8, At Civic Center

This year’s General Election will take place at the Grant County Civic Center on November 8. Advanced voting is available by mail, with in-person advance voting beginning October 24 at the Court House, and closing on November 7. The Grant County Civic Center will be open from 7 am until 7 pm for voting.

If voters have questions or would like to confirm their voting status, please call the Grant County Clerk’s Office at (620) 356-1335 or visit https://myvoteinfo.voteks.org/voterview/

Voters may view their General Election sample ballot at https://myvoteinfo.voteks.org/voterview/ or  https://www.grantcoks.org/

On August 2, the Primary Election took place at the Grant County Civic Center. There were a total of 3,708 registered voters in Grant County, and it was reported with a 38.54% turnout with 1,429 total votes casted.

For National Officers: Democrat Mark Holland, Republican Jerry Moran, and Libertarian David Graham, are all running for the United States Senate seat.

Democrat James “Jimmy” Beard, and Republican Tracey Mann, are both running for the United States House of Representatives 1st District seat.

For State Offices: Democrat Laura Kelly David Toland, Independent Dennis Pyle and Kathleen E. Garrison, Republican Derek Schmidt and Katie Sawyer, and Libertarian Seth Cordell and Evan Laudick-Gains, are all running for the Governor and Lieutenant Governor seats.

Democrat Jeanna Repass, Republican Scott J. Schwab, and Libertarian Cullene Lang, are all running for the Secretary of State seat.

Republican Kris Kobach, and Democrat Chris Mann, are both running for the Attorney General seat.

Libertarian Steve Roberts, Democrat Lynn Rogers, and Republican Steven Johnson, are all running for the State Treasurer seat.

Democrat Kiel Corkran, and Republican Vicki Schmidt, are both running for the Commissioner of Insurance seat.

Republican David Younger is the only candidate running for the Kansas House of Representatives 124th District seat.

Republican Bradley Ambrosier is the only candidate running for the District Court Judge District 26, 1st Division seat.

Republican Linda Gilmore is the only candidate for the District Court Judge District 26, 3rd Division seat.

Republican Cathy Hopkins is the only candidate for the State Board of Education 5th District seat.

For County Offices: Republican Marty Long is the only candidate for the County Commissioner 1st District seat.

Voters may vote for or against keeping Supreme Court Justices in office. These Justices are: Melissa Taylor Standridge, Dan Biles, K. J. Wall, Marla Kuckert, Evelyn Z. Wilson, and Caleb Stegall.

Voters may vote for or against keeping Court of Appeals Judges in office. The Judges are: Stephen D. Hill, Lesley Ann Isherwood, Amy Fellows Cline, Kim R. Schroeder, Henry W. Green Jr. Tom Malone, and Jacy J. Hurst.

Two Constitutional Amendments are available for voting.

The first amendment over “Legislative oversight of administrative rules and regulations,” states “Whenever the legislature by law has authorized any officer or agency within the executive branch of government to adopt rules and regulations that have the force and effect of law, the legislature may provide by law for the revocation or suspension of any such rule and regulation, or any portion thereof, upon a vote of a majority of the members then elected or appointed and qualified in each house.

Voters will be asked if they want to allow the legislature to establish procedures to revoke or suspend rules and regulations that are adopted by state executive branch agencies and officials that have the force and effect of the law, or if they are against the proposition that would allow state executive branch agencies and officials to continue adopting rules and regulations that have the force and effect of law without any opportunity for the legislature to directly revoke or suspend rules and regulations.

The second amendment states it would “preserve the rights of citizens of each county that elected a county sheriff as of January 11, 2022, to continue electing the county sheriff. The amendment would also provide that a county sheriff only may be involuntarily removed from office pursuant to either a recall election or a writ of quo warrant initiated by the attorney general.

Voters will be asked if they want to allow this proposition to preserve the rights of the citizens to possibly involuntarily remove a county sheriff from office pursuant to either a recall election or a writ of quo warrant initiated by the attorney general, or if they are against making any changes to the constitution and would retain the current law concerning the election of a sheriff and the procedures for involuntary removal of a sheriff from office.