Kansas attorney general urges county to keep ballots longer than is allowed to aid sheriff's probe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Baseless conspiracy theories have circulated widely among Republicans since the 2020 elections and prompted the GOP-controlled state Legislature to tighten election laws in the name of restoring public confidence.
45% : He also championed tough voter ID laws, one of which required new voters to show papers documenting their U.S. citizenship when registering and was struck down by the federal courts.Kobach's successor as secretary of state, Republican Scott Schwab, declined to comment Thursday, though Schwab has strongly defended the integrity of the state's elections.
36% : The county's politics have become more Democratic over time -- in part because of some suburban voters' distaste for Trump.
11% : Trump also continues to falsely claim that he won the 2020 election, and Hayden has said he began to question the previously solidly Republican county's elections when Trump lost there.

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