U.S. Army Col. (Ret.) Pat Proctor is a Kansas representative and chairman of the Kansas House Committee on Elections. He is also a member of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission Board of Advisors and an assistant professor of Homeland Security at Wichita State University.

President Donald Trump and other Republicans have long criticized states that take weeks to count their ballots after Election Day. This year has seen

Only once - in 1897 - have Republicans not held at least one branch of state government. When they regained power in 1900, they outlawed fusion voting. | Opinion

Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias has lost his bid to thwart a Kansas law banning foreign actors from funneling money into state-level ballot initiatives. In May, the Elias Law Group, the eponymous law firm of the election attorney,