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Newspaper publisher Bonita Gooch defeated state Rep. Ford Carr and will be unopposed in the Nov. 3 general election. Former Wichita mayor Brandon Whipple unseated state Rep. Henry Helgerson.

Tonight's results will also decide a proposed constitutional amendment to change the way state Supreme Court justices are selected.

Seventeen satellite voting locations are now open. Early voting ends Monday.

Applicants must be registered voters in Sedgwick County, or 16- or 17-year-olds who are eligible to vote aside from their age.

Former Coldwater, Kansas, mayor Joe Ceballos surrendered to federal immigration agents at a detention center in Wichita on Wednesday. He has said voting was an “honest mistake” because he believed his permanent legal status allowed him to vote.

Rep. Pat Proctor, a Leavenworth Republican who is running for secretary of state, and Rep. Paul Waggoner, a Hutchinson Republican, also want to require driver's licenses to indicate citizenship status, in an effort to stamp out the already-rare instances of noncitizen voting.

Wichita will hold a special election on March 3 on a citywide sales tax proposal. Sedgwick County election officials say that about 26,000 voters will be directed to alternative polling places come election day.

A longtime anti-abortion activist filed the lawsuit, alleging the ballot boxes would be used to cast fraudulent votes against the abortion amendment on the primary ballot.

Across the nation, universities saw students engaging more in the voting process.

Wichita's Democracy on Tap convened digitally on October 12. Our panel discussed issues inherent to our democracy including voting practices, legislative involvement, redistricting and oversight.