
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — State records show that a Democratic U.S. Senate nominee seeking to get his name off the ballot is the only candidate since 2010 to fail to use wording that the secretary of state’s office says is required.
The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/1qSKS4t ) reports that nine other candidates have withdrawn after winning their party’s nomination in the past four years. Records The Eagle obtained shows all of them declared they were incapable to serve.
Secretary of State Kris Kobach has kept Democrat Chad Taylor on the ballot against his will. Kobach says Taylor did not declare himself incapable to serve if elected in his letter withdrawing from the race.
Taylor sought to withdraw to clear the way for independent candidate Greg Orman to directly oppose Republican Pat Roberts.