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ELECTION GUIDE 2
Advance voting information
Oct. 22 to Oct. 24, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Lawrence: Douglas County Clerks Office, 1100 Massachusetts St.
Oct. 25, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Lawrence: Douglas County Clerks Office, 1100 Massachusetts St.
Lecompton: City Hall, 327 Elmore St.
Eudora: City Hall, 4 E. 7th St.
Baldwin City: Baldwin City Fire Station, 610 High St.
Oct. 27 to Oct. 31, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Lawrence: Douglas County Clerks Office, 1100 Massachusetts St.
(10 a.m. to 7 p.m.)
Brandon Woods Smith Center, 4730 Brandon Woods Terrace
Douglas County Fairgrounds, 2110 Harper St.
KU Multicultural Resource Center, 1299 Oread Ave.
Nov. 1, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m
Lawrence: Douglas County Clerks Office, 1100 Massachusetts St.
Lecompton: City Hall, 327 Elmore St.
Eudora: City Hall, 4 E. 7th St.
Baldwin City: Fire Station, 610 High St.
Nov. 3, 8 a.m. to noon
Lawrence: Douglas County Clerks Office, 1100 Massachusetts St.
Advance voting by mail:
Submit an advance ballot application and return it by fax, mail, email or in person
with your photo ID information on/with the application. The last day for ballots to
be mailed is Oct. 31. Completed ballots must be returned to the Election Office by
7 p.m. Nov. 4.
Dont have an advance
ballot? Students voting
in the area are required
to visit their designated
locations on Election Day.
46
44
10
45
District 10
Republican Nicolas VanWyhe
(student)
VS.
Incumbent Democrat John Wilson
(serving since 2013)
District 44 - unopposed
Incumbent Democrat Barbara
Ballard, Dole Institute
Associate Director
(serving since 1993)
District 45 - unopposed
Incumbent Republican Tom Sloan
(serving since 1995)
District 46 - Current Seat:
Paul Davis
Republican J. Douglas Robinson
VS.
Democrat Dennis Boog
Highberger
Oct. 15: Advance voting began
Nov. 3: In-person advance voting
ends at noon
Nov. 4: November General Election
Nov. 5: Registration books for
Douglas County residents reopen
Nov. 13: Official Canvass for General
Election at 9 a.m.
Voting Dates
election guide 3
Te faces and names of Kansass
2014 candidates appear on front
lawn signs and between the daily
news broadcast. Teres no doubt
its voter season and Election Day
is nearing.
Te Kansan has been covering
voting topics relevant to students
since the semester started includ-
ing registration information, the
Taylor v. Kobach case and college
afordability. Reporters covered
Lynn Jenkins visit with the Title
IX Roundtable back in August
and Greg Ormans presenta-
tion about college afordability
yesterday.
In this special voting section,
we have laid out the issues that
have the greatest impact on
higher education and topics
we as students care about. My
hope is that you fnd this section
informative, concise and easy
to read. I can say I know more
about voting in Kansas than I do
in my home state of California.
Te more Ive read about these
topics, the more I know and want
to be civically engaged. I hope the
same for all students.
So, dont forget to send in those
advance ballots and show up to
the correct polling sites. Look
for our coverage of the day on
Kansan.com
Rock Chalk,
Amelia Arvesen
News Editor, Fall 2014
Tis Election Day could have a
major efect on the future of our
current state of residence. Even
if youre from out of state like I
am, you have the opportunity to
register to vote in Kansas instead.
Because most of us are in the
process of at least a four-year
stay in Kansas, I recommend it.
Tough the acts of politicians
afect us specifcally in terms
of higher education funding
young people are ofen written
of, especially in state and local
elections. People dont expect us
to care or vote, even though we
are the future leaders of this state.
Our voices matter because what
happens in the Kansas Statehouse
and in the U.S. Congress now will
afect Jayhawks for years to come.
We are united as Jayhawks, and
that should extend to the state we
live in. We deserve to have repre-
sentation in political ofce, and
the frst step to gaining that is to
make the politicians understand
that we do care and we do matter.
All it takes is making one extra
errand run on Nov. 4 to vote,
which you can do at the Burge
Union on Election Day, or vote
early at the Ofce of Multicultur-
al Afairs between Oct. 27 and 31.
If youre unsure about why your
vote matters, there is a whole
network of student organizations
committed to helping you, re-
gardless of your political leanings
or because of them, so next time
you walk past a table on Wescoe
Beach, consider taking a few
minutes out of your day to fnd
out about them. Rock Chalk.

Kaitlyn Klein, SLAB leader-
ship member and senior from
Bellevue, Neb.

Klein is an of-campus senator, is
Chair of Newspaper Readership
Advisory Board, a Multicultural
education fund committee mem-
ber, and a volunteer for Wakefeld
for Congress campaign.
civic engagement
Section Editor
Amelia Arvesen
Content Editor
Katie Kutsko
Contributors
Allison Kite
Alex Keenan
Designer
Hallie Wilson
Special Section
Staff
Civically engaged students worked since the beginning of the
semester to get other students registered to vote. The Student
Legislative Awareness Board collected the number of forms and
on Oct. 14, the numbers were:
583 249
Voter registration Advance ballot forms
In sharp contrast to past landslide
races, Kansas has emerged as a state
to watch, with three races making
headlines.
Competitive races for governor,
U.S. Senate and Kansas Secretary
of State have voters talking about
whats at stake in November.
Governor
Incumbent Republican Sam
Brownback leads challenger Demo-
crat Paul Davis on Oct. 21 by only
.6 points, according to an average of
several polls by Real Clear Politics.
Brownback won the 2010 guberna-
torial election by a 31-point spread,
but some of his policies have come
under fre.
What it means: Te heat Brownback
is getting makes this election an
uphill battle for him to bring down
moderate Democrat Davis.
Much of the anti-Brownback dis-
cussion in the race revolves around
the declining tax revenue and
potential debt because of tax cuts.
University political science profes-
sor Burdett Loomis said the tax cuts
have failed to stimulate the economy
as promised.
Were talking about a state where
there was supposed to be great
economic growth, Loomis said.
Tats what the governor said. It
was an experiment that if we cut
taxes, businesses would fourish,
wed have great economic growth
and everything would be wonderful.
Tat hasnt occurred.
Kelly Arnold, chair of the Kansas
Republican Party, argued that the
cuts were efective, citing the un-
employment rate of 4.9 percent and
job creation, and said the plan needs
more time to be efective.
[Brownback] had to come in and
make some major changes in the
structure of our government, our ad-
ministration to kind of just get over
this hump, to turn the corner on an
economic aspect of it, Arnold said.
Senate
Te race for U.S. Senate has been
equally tight. According to Real
Clear Politics, Republican incum-
bent Pat Roberts has come back up
in the polls to a dead tie. In Sep-
tember, when former Democratic
candidate Chad Taylor withdrew,
votes shifed toward independent
Greg Orman, putting him in a 45.5
to 37.5 lead over Roberts. Arnold
suggested the comeback is a func-
tion of Ormans perceived lack of
stance on issues.
What it means: Loomis and Arnold
said the Senate race will have more
of an efect on the nation as a whole
than the state. Arnold said control of
the Senate could potentially depend
heavily on the outcome in Kansas,
especially because Orman has yet
to announce which party he would
caucus with.
Do you want the Democrats to
control the United States Senate, or
do you want the Republicans? Tats
really what it boils down to, Arnold
said.
Te race for U.S. Senate began
garnering attention when Roberts
fought a tough primary against
Milton Wolf and continued through
Taylors withdrawal. Loomis said the
level of competition in the Senate
race was not as predictable as the
gubernatorial race, but losing a
formerly solid Republican seat could
make it more difcult for Republi-
cans to take control of the Senate.
Its odd because were in a red
state, and its contested, Loomis
said. Its odd because we have an
independent candidate, so from a
whole variety of ways, it sets itself up
as a pretty good news story.
Brittany Bodenheimer, president of
the KU Young Democrats, said she
believes the tight race is a result of a
general feeling of misdirection and a
strong challenging candidate.
Right now in Kansas theres a real-
ly strong attitude of anti-incumben-
cy, she said. People are less willing
to re-elect people who are already
in ofce because of the way things
are going. With Pat Roberts, hes
been in ofce for a long time now. I
think, once again, were seeing a lot
of failed policy, but I think we have a
really great alternative candidate.
Secretary of State
Te race for Kansas Secretary of
State, which Loomis said is normally
a relatively boring race, has become
more competitive. According to
Public Policy Polling, its now a 6
point race with Kris Kobach lead-
ing 47 to 41. Current Secretary of
State Kobach has received heat for
the 2011-2012 law requiring proof
of citizenship to register to vote,
which has lef many Kansas voters in
suspense.
What it means: Kobach has said the
law is a measure to prevent illegal
voting by non-citizens. However,
those opposed to the 2011-2012 law
have argued its more of a deterrent
to would-be voters than a protection
from voter fraud.
Loomis said he believed many of
these voters would be democratic
voters.
In Kansas, hes being partisan in
an ofce that should be run in a
nonpartisan way, Loomis said.
However, Loomis added that
Democratic candidate Jean Schodorf
hasnt stolen the show.
Schodorf has been an OK candi-
date. She hasnt raised very much
money.
Arnold said following the legisla-
tures passing of the proof of citizen-
ship bill, it is up to the 105 election
ofcials to implement it. He added
that those ofcials have made it as
easy as possible, by allowing voters
to submit their proof via smart-
phone and trying to reach people on
the list of voters in suspense.
I know several state representa-
tives that have gone door-to-door to
people that are on this list of people
waiting to verify proof of citizenship
to help them complete that transac-
tion, Arnold said.
In September, Taylor sued Kobach
for refusing to remove his name
from the ballot, which Arnold said
has pulled the Secretary of States
race into the limelight.
With only two week lef until
election day, races in Kansas remain
extremely close.
Edited by Jacob Clemen
election guide 4
Kansas grabs spotlight in 2014 midterm election
Whats at stake:
By Allison Kite
@Allie_Kite
election guide 5
Sam Brownback
Governor Brownback was born in Garnett. He
studied agricultural economics at Kansas State
University, where he was a member of the Alpha
Gamma Rho Fraternity. He earned a law de-
gree from the University of Kansas and served
as class president before fnishing his degree in
1982. Brownback became Secretary of the Kan-
sas Board of Agriculture in 1986. He was elect-
ed to the U.S. Senate in 1996. In 2010, he was
elected governor of Kansas. He currently lives
in Topeka with his wife, Mary, of more than 30
years and their fve children. Te Brownbacks
adoption experience inspired them to create th
Building Families program, which ofers grants
for Christian Kansas to ofset adoption expens-
es.
Paul Davis
Davis was born in Woodland, Calif., and attend-
ed Lawrence public schools during his youth.
He went on to study at the University of Kansas
where he received his bachelors degree in arts
in political science. He earned a Juris Doctorate
from Washburn University School of Law. He
currently practices law with the frm of Fagan
Emert & Davis, LLC. His wife, Stephanie, works
as a psychologist for homeless veterans. Tey
have a 3-year-old daughter, Caroline.
Keen Umbehr
Umbehr was born in Great Bend. Due to his fa-
thers job with an oilfeld-supply company, his
family moved around the world. He has lived
in Nigeria, Angola, Africa, Singapore and Lon-
don. At age 40, Umbehr began classes at Kansas
State University. He graduated cum laude with a
bachelors degree in political science. He earned
a law degree from Washburn University in 2005.
Immediately afer graduation Umbehr went
into private practice in Topeka. He now prac-
tices in his hometown of Alma, where he lives
with his family.
Senator
Pat Roberts
Senator Roberts was born in Topeka. He studied
journalism at Kansas State University. He served
in the Marine Corps for four years, beginning
in 1958. In 1969, he became administrative as-
sistant to First District U.S. Congressman Keith
Sebelius. Roberts was elected to Congress in
1980. He was elected to the U.S. Senate for his
frst term in 1996. He was re-elected in 2002 and
2008. Roberts, a senior member of the Senate
Agriculture Committee, served as the ranking
member during the last congress. He is the frst
person in history to hold the post in both the
House and the Senate. He and his wife, Fran-
ki, have three children David, Ashleigh and
Anne-Wesley.
Greg Orman
Orman was born in Mankato, Minn. In 1971,
Gregs father opened a furniture store in Stanley.
Orman worked in the stores warehouse dur-
ing his teen years. Orman attributes the busi-
ness values he holds today to his time working
at his fathers store. He studied economics and
earned his degree from Princeton in 1991. Or-
man is active in the American Legions Boys
State program. He led the capital campaign for
the YMCAs Youth in Government program.
Orman and his wife, Sybil, live in Olathe. He is
involved with several businesses throughout the
country, including Combat Brands in Lenexa, a
sports and athletic goods manufacturer.
Randall Batson
Batson was born in Wichita. He served in the
Navy. Since then, Batson has worked in both
aviation manufacturing and bio-pharmaceu-
tical companies. He is now a quality assurance
inspector at a manufacturing facility in Wichita.
governor
Lynn Jenkins
Jenkins was born near Holton and raised on a
dairy farm. She studied at Kansas State Univer-
sity and Weber State College in Ogden, Utah,
where she earned a degree in accounting with a
minor in economics. In 2002, Jenkins was elect-
ed the 37th State Treasurer of Kansas, a position
she retained until 2009. She was elected to the
House of Representatives in 2008. She is a grad-
uate of Leadership Kansas and has served on
the Kansas State University Accounting Depart-
ment Advisory Council, the Kansas Childrens
Service League Board of Directors, the YMCA
of Topeka Metro Board, the Topeka Youth for
Christ Endowment Advisory Committee and
the Dwight D. Eisenhower Excellence in Public
Service Honorary Board of Governors.
Margie Wakefield
Margie Wakefeld was born in St. Joseph, Mo.
She received her bachelors degree in journalism
from the University of Missouri in 1980. She
moved to Topeka, to work as a constituent ser-
vices aide for United States Senator Bob Dole.
Her time working with Senator Dole was where
learned the importance of positiveconstituent
relations. Wakefeld earned a law degree from
the University of Kansas. She established her
own family law practice, Margie Wakefeld Law
Ofce, P.A. Wakefeld currently lives in Law-
rence.
Chris Clemmons
Chris Clemmons grew up in Leavenworth.
Clemmons family returned to Leavenworth
when he was 2 years old. He studied geology and
education at the University of Kansas. During
his time at the University, he developed an inter-
est in Brazilian jiujitsu, going on to establish the
University club. He still returns to teach a class or
two every year. Clemmons taught seventh grade
life science at Patton Jr. High for the past two
years. He has started a gardening and outdoor
education program. As he runs for Congress, he
is also working on acquiring his masters degree
in education and teaching life science at Rose-
dale Middle School in Kansas City, Kan.
district 2
Photos courtesy of the Topeka CapitAl-Journal
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Pat
Roberts
Margie
Wakefield
Lynn
Jenkins
Randall
Batson
Greg
Orman
Paul
Davis
Keen
Umbehr
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Supports fed-
eral tax code and
business regula-
tions reform
Believes tax
code is too
complex, costly
and financially
consuming
Decision for the
courts
Approves Approves Opposes Decision for
religious
institutions
Sees it passing in
the future
Authored legisla-
tion to reform
state 529 College
Savings plan
designed to help
families save for
college education
Supports local
military spending
and training
Opposes Presi-
dent Obamas
healthcare
reforms
Will allow pur-
chasing of insur-
ance from across
state lines
Will work
toward affordable
childcare
Wants to keep
Social Security
public
Wants af-
fordable higher
education by
managing tuition
and student loan
rates
Supportive of
university re-
search projects
Believes the U.S.
should decrease
military spending
Supports Medic-
aid expansion
Supports de-
pendents staying
on parental health
care coverage
until age 26
Opposes gov-
ernments war on
drugs, citing it as
a major waste of
resources
Supports
smaller govern-
ment budgets,
fair tax rates and
union labor
Hopes to
integrate college
graduates into
the economy
immediately while
making debt more
manageable
Supports fiscal
transparency
so people know
where the univer-
sitys money is
used
Supports reduc-
tion of military
spending
Does not support
the Affordable
Care Act
Supports the
aviation industry,
which accounts
for more than
22,000 Kansas
jobs, as a boost
to the economy
Believes deci-
sions affecting
education should
be decided locally,
not by the federal
government
Supports military
spending for
strong national
military
Strongly opposes
the Affordable
Care Act and is
against federal
involvement in
health care
Wants to
eliminate income
taxes
Supports the
legalization and
taxation of mari-
juana
Believes in
elimination of the
Department of
Education
Supports
increased funding
of private educa-
tion but does not
support state
funding of college
educations
Supports with-
drawing soldiers
from foreign soil
Opposes expand-
ing Obamacare
Hopes to elimi-
nate barriers to
job creation
Will lower the
burden on em-
ployers so they
can afford to hire
more workers
Believes in fed-
eral student loan
system reform
Restructuring of
Veterans Affairs
rules so veterans
who have had
to wait months
for care or live in
rural areas can
receive treatment
at critical access
facilities
Does not sup-
port the Afford-
able Care Act
Supports small
businesses
Continue to
provide support
for the aviation
industry
Increase per-
centage of state
funding that goes
into colleges
Hopes for
60 percent of
Kansas adults to
have a college
degree or techni-
cal certificate
within the next
four years
Hopes that
within the next
four years,
85 percent of
high school
graduates will
have joined the
military, received
a technical cer-
tificate or been
accepted into a
higher-education
institution
Opposes Obam-
acare
Working on
developing state-
mandated pro-
grams for health
insurance
Opposes
Will fight for
legislation that
reduces income
and compensating
use taxes
Plans to impose
budget cuts on
state board and
on agency expen-
ditures
Fund programs
beneficial to low-
income residents
Believes Kansas
colleges and uni-
versities should
seek contribu-
tions from alumni
to hold down tu-
ition rather than
looking to Kansas
taxpayers
Approves
Reduce spending
of every state
agency by 3
percent over the
next four years
Supports state
adoption of
Direct Primary
Care
Implementation
of DPC model
would potentially
save $1 billion per
year
More invest-
ment in workforce
training
Proposing
putting a halt to
income tax rates
until school fund-
ing is restored
Decision for the
courts
Against budget
cuts for educa-
tional institutions
Wants to
prioritize funding
public education
Supports the
states military
installations
Supports afford-
able, accessible
health care, but
Obamacare was
too far-reaching
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election guide 7
Kansas Constitution change would
allow nonprofits to hold raffles
Kansas voters will decide Nov. 4 whether charitable
organizations should be able to hold fundraising rafes.
An amendment to Article 15 Section 3 of the Kan-
sas Constitution, introduced by Kansas Senator Jacob
LaTurner, that would allow charitable organizations to
conduct rafes, must be approved by referendum before it
can be passed.
According to LaTurner, who serves Kansas Senate
District 13, the new law would be helpful for organiza-
tions like his hometown volunteer fre department, which
rafes of a car each year as a fundraiser. LaTurner said
he wanted to make it legal to protect the fre department,
fundraisers to fght cancer and other nonprofts.
I mean, these are not criminals, he said. Tese are
wonderful people, and we just need to make sure that
what theyre doing is within the law.
If it passes the general election, the law could provide a
new form of fundraising for Greek organizations on cam-
pus, which Dustin Struble, assistant director of Student
Involvement and Leadership Center and Greek Life, said
he believed could only help.
It seems to me to be a win-win situation to be able to
do something like this as long as people are being ethical
about their fundraising, he said.
Joan Schultz, executive director of the Willow Domes-
tic Violence Center, said she supported the legislation
assuming that the intent of the bill is to help nonprofts
fundraise without taxation.
When you allow nonprofts to expand their way of
gaining donations and funds, thats always a good thing,
she said. Since all nonprofts 501(c)3 are not subject to
tax, those donations go straight to in my case sur-
vivors of domestic violence. Tats always a good thing. It
then becomes a public-private partnership, so to speak.
However, she added that for it to be benefcial for non-
profts, she believes the legislature should avoid taxing
the income from rafes and placing restrictions on the
process.
No one is publicly endorsing the no vote on this issue.
LaTurner said if the law passes the general election, the
legislature will have to clarify implementation compo-
nents with statute in the next session.
Edited by Emily Brown
By Allison Kite
@Allie_Kite
It seems to me to be a
win-win situation to be
able to [hold rafes] as long
as people are being ethical
about their fundraising.

Dustin Struble
Assistant director of SILC
election guide 8
Nov. 8 marks the 20th anni-
versary of a Kansas House of
Representatives race that was
decided by a tiebreaker.
In the 1994 election be-
tween Joe Shriver and Danny
Jones, the election was de-
cided afer multiple recounts
by the drawing of a back-
gammon chip. In the initial
count, Shriver, the incum-
bent Democrat, lost by 32
votes to the challenging Re-
publican Jones.
When Shriver requested
a recount, he won by seven
votes, but the investigation
didnt stop there. It took fve
recounts for District Judge
Stephen Hill to declare the
race a tie, according to a
Topeka Capital-Journal
article from January 1995.
Afer the recounts, a special
committee of the House per-
formed its own recount only
to come up with the same
conclusion.
It was a matter of seven
votes at the county level,
and it was a matter when the
court got through, it was a
one vote race, said Shriver,
who retired from the legisla-
ture in 2005 and is now living
in Arkansas City. When the
legislature got done, it was an
exact tie.
When the House commit-
tee came to the conclusion
that the race was tied at 3,031
votes, the legislature had to
break it.
Tat had never happened
before, so they didnt know
how you were going to break
the tie, said Barbara Ballard,
associate director for the
Dole Institute of Politics and
Kansas State Representative
since 1993.
Jones told Tim Shallenberg-
er, the Speaker of the House
at the time, that he wanted
the tie to be broken by a lot,
not a vote, a decision which
infuriated some Republicans.
Ballard said Shallenberger
was under pressure from
House Republicans, who
held the majority, to break
the tie with a vote. However,
a vote in the House would
undoubtedly result in a vic-
tory for Republican Jones.
Danny Jones was saying
in essence, If I were in the
other persons shoes, Id want
somebody to give me a fair
shake, Ballard said.
Te recount process, the
court case and the process
by the legislature took nearly
three months, from the time
of the initial election in No-
vember to the tiebreaker in
February, which meant Jones
and Shriver were on hold for
all that time.
We laugh about it now,
Shriver said. It was hard to
laugh about it when it was
going on because there was
so much tension and so much
pressure. Putting your life on
hold like that is not fun.
Jene Vickrey, who has
served in the 6th District seat
since 1993, said other mem-
bers of the House had got-
ten to know both candidates
over the three-month stretch,
making it tough to know only
one would win.
I think everybody there
was kind of under the same
kind of feelings and stress
because you knew they were
both great guys, and some-
body was going to lose and it
had taken such a long time,
Vickrey said.
Finally, the day came for the
tie to be broken. House Chief
Clerk Janet Jones was tasked
with pulling a backgammon
chip from a plastic box. Bal-
lard said the House was com-
pletely silent.
I just dont know how you
could not have been very
anxious about that. I think it
was refected in how quiet the
House was, Ballard said.
Te white chip pulled by
Janet Jones signifed a victory
for Danny Jones.
Shriver returned home and
continued his job as a fre-
fghter, which had been held
for him during the three-
month period. He then went
on to run against Jones in
1996 and win 4,456 to 3,322
a 1,134-vote race and a
28.3 percent larger turnout.
It makes again a case for
when people turn out to vote,
they make a diference in the
outcome of elections, Bal-
lard said. Maybe because its
the community where they
came from had lived with
this for three months too and
they saw the outcome of it,
that this time you saw more
people paying attention to
this.
Now, 20 years later, Shriver
is retired in Arkansas City
and is still friends with Jones.
When I do see him when
he does come back, were
very cordial, and we laugh
about it now, Shriver said.
Edited by Emily Brown
By Allison Kite
@Allie_Kite
One vote couldve
made the diference
in 1994 Kansas Race
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james hoyt/kansan