When you go to the polls to vote for governor between now and Tuesday, don’t be surprised if you don’t see every candidate that you’re expecting to see on your ballot. They’re all there, but you may have to look a little deeper than usual to find the candidate you want to vote for. Because of an unforeseen software glitch in Sedgwick County’s new voting machines, not all the candidates’ names appear on the first screen when the voting machine gets to the gubernatorial election. To see all the names, you have to touch “more” at the bottom of the screen, which opens another page with the rest of the candidates. So on the first screen page that comes up when you’re voting in the governor race, you might see, for example, Gov. Jeff Colyer’s name, but not his chief rival, Kris Kobach. Or you might see Kobach’s name but not Colyer’s. Or you might see both, or neither.
… The main reason the candidates are spread over two screen pages on the voting machine is that there are too many of them — seven Republicans and five Democrats are running for governor.
Making matters worse, state law requires each ballot line to have the candidate’s name and city of residence, plus their lieutenant governor running mate and their city of residence, said Sedgwick County Election Commissioner Tabitha Lehman.
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