By Tim Carpenter

Kansas Reflector

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TOPEKA — Secretary of State Scott Schwab takes exception to anyone insisting on a state criminal investigation of Kansas elections based on the assumption evidence of misconduct waited to be found.

Schwab, the state’s top election official and a candidate for the Republican Party’s nomination for governor, said Kansas elections were secure, fair and accurate. He was aware GOP rival Doug Billings said if he were elected governor in 2026 that he’d order the Kansas Bureau of Investigation to launch an inquiry into election irregularities. Billings asserted anyone who said Kansas didn’t have election integrity issues was lying or ill-informed.

“He’s not attacking me,” Schwab said o

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