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Which Republican voters turn out Tuesday likely will decide U.S. Senate, other major Kansas races By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock
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THE FIRST TIME LAWRENCE RESIDENT VIRGINIA ROMERO, 88, worked the polls during an election was when Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president. Romero is pictured with daughter Judy Romero, also of Lawrence, who will work her first election this year.
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sk Virginia Romero what she remembers about the time Kansan Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president, and she’ll tell you marks. Lots of marks. One mark, two mark, three mark, four mark, cross. One mark, two mark, three mark . . . . That was the high-tech, Douglas County ballotcounting system in place
when Eisenhower was elected president. Mark after mark, and indeed they added up. “We counted votes until 9 a.m. the next morning,” Virginia says. Virginia was a poll worker back in 1952, and in those days votes were counted at each polling station. So Virginia and a crew spent their evening, and part of their Wednesday morning,
inside the gymnasium at New York Elementary School, the polling station she staffed. Evidently she had a good pencil sharpener. She signed up for the same duty the next election, and she has been a Douglas County poll worker every election since. “I like being around Please see POLL, page 3A
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A former Kansas University student is in enrollment limbo as the university continues to fight Douglas County District Judge Robert Fairchild’s ruling that KU did not have jurisdiction to expel the student for
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With no major party to rally voters to the ballot boxes Tuesday, independent Greg Orman faces an unusual Election Day challenge. Page 4A
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expelling him. KU had cited its Student Conduct Code, which states that students can be punished for policy violations that occur “while on university premises or at university sponsored or supervised events.” Because the incidents that Please see TWITTER, page 7A
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Topeka — As the 2014 election campaign draws to a close, candidates for governor and U.S. Senate are making their final pushes to get out the vote for Nov. 4. In a heavily Republican state like Kansas, the size of the GOP turnout is always important. But this year, the question is more about which Republican voters turn out as Democrats, independents and Republicans all make appeals to different segments of the highly fractured party. “This is a very critical election,” Sen. Pat Roberts said to campaign volunteers who rallied at the Kansas Republican Party headquarters in Topeka last week. “The country is counting on us to get this
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