(Kansas) Sheriff Hayden wasted Johnson County's time and money chasing Trump's election lies

[Eugene]

Earlier DU thread: Johnson County sheriff claimed he got 200 tips of election fraud. A records request yielded only one

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Source: Kansas City Star Editorial Board

Sheriff Hayden wasted Johnson County’s time and money chasing Trump’s election lies ǀ Opinion

The Kansas City Star Editorial Board
Thu, May 25, 2023 at 6:06 AM EDT·4 min read

It’s not a surprise, but still warrants public notice: Johnson County Sheriff Calvin Hayden’s effort to ferret out election fraud in Kansas is officially a huge, wasteful flop.

As The Star’s Katie Bernard reported this week, two years of investigation by Hayden’s office following the 2020 presidential election have produced precisely one recommendation of criminal charges to local prosecutors — and that single count involves an allegation of voter intimidation a few days prior to the Kansas abortion referendum vote in August 2022.

It’s hardly the stuff of widespread voter fraud.

That hasn’t stopped Hayden from suggesting that a conspiracy somehow flipped Johnson County to Joe Biden’s column during the 2020 election. Hayden even took his claims to the 2022 Las Vegas convention of the Constitutional Sheriffs & Peace Officers Association, a group of cranks who argue that county sheriffs’ authority supersedes that of state and federal officials.

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/sheriff-hayden-wasted-johnson-county-100600921.html

[ret5hd]

1. The sheriff of nuttingham.

What a twit.

[yankee87]

2. Grifter Anonymous

All of this is all about the grift. It's hard to believe anyone believes the Big Lie anymore.

[Rebl2]

3. What an

idiot grifter. It was likely a Republican that committed the fraud.