Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab is Kansas’ top election official, overseeing an elections system largely administered by local officials across the state’s 105 counties. After Kris Kobach’s tumultuous tenure, which saw the office mired in lawsuits and controversies as Kobach championed aggressive voting restrictions, Schwab has largely drained the Kansas Secretary of State’s Office of public drama over the past four years Schwab, a 50-year-old Overland Park resident and former state lawmaker, has repeatedly vouched for the security and integrity of elections in Kansas —a state former President Donald Trump won by double digits in 2020— as false allegations of fraud and conspiracy theories nevertheless take root. But he is still a Republican in a Republican-dominated state. As Schwab runs for re-election, the first-term secretary of state is navigating treacherous political terrain. He’s among a host of Republican secretaries of state —and other GOP statewide officials— und...