Kansas to use 'Rep' to distinguish candidate with same name

 


TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Activists in both parties strongly suspect that political skullduggery led to two Kansas candidates with the same first and last name running against each other in a congressional primary, but a state board on Monday faced its own challenge: How should ballots differentiate between the two Wichita men?

Republican voters in the 4th District in the Wichita area are now set to choose Aug. 7 between Rep. Ron Estes , the incumbent, and Ron M. Estes , the challenger. The Kansas secretary of state's office devised the listing after Ron M. Estes filed to challenge the freshman cong...



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