Gov. Jeff Colyer and Secretary of State Kris Kobach turned over squabbling duties to their proxies Monday as counties began tallying provisional ballots, extending Kobach's lead in the GOP primary to 206 votes. Kobach assistant Eric Rucker and Colyer's chief counsel, Brant Laue, offered competing views of Kansas law governing provisional ballots completed by unaffiliated voters. The issue is whether votes should count if a volunteer poll worker made a mistake. County canvassing boards are weighing those arguments as they sort through 9,000 provisional ballots this week...
