The deadline to register to vote in Sedgwick County for next month's general election is on Tuesday.Sedgwick County Election Commissioner Tabitha Lehman…
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Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Thursday, January 21, 2021
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Sedgwick County Election Commissioner Tabitha Lehman said she is losing her job for violating a policy by remotely accessing the state’s voter registration database when working from home while fighting cancer during the coronavirus pandemic.
Secretary of State Scott Schwab informed her earlier this month that when her term as election commissioner expires on July 19, he did not intend to appoint her to another term, Lehman said Wednesday in a news release.
Lehman said she “knowingly chose” to violate Schwab’s policy in order to direct a fair and accurate presidential election, and that violation is the rationale for him not reappointing her, the Wichita Eagle reported.
Fernando Salazar
The 2020 general election set records in Sedgwick County for early voting and the overall number of ballots cast.
A post-election report presented to Sedgwick County commissioners this month shows for the first time, more voters cast ballots during the early voting period than on Election Day.
Sedgwick County Election Commissioner Tabitha Lehman says 70% of registered voters participated in November’s election, and 68% of those voters used mail-in ballots or in-person early voting.
Sedgwick County 2020 General Election by the numbers:
322,381 registered voters
225,771 ballots cast: 87,382 mail-in ballots; 67,387 ballots from early in-person voting; 62,624 ballots from Election Day voting
8,378 provisional ballots cast