The federal lawsuit was filed hours after a Kansas judge ordered Shawnee County officials to give a Democratic legislator and her Republican opponent a list of voters who cast provisional ballots in this week's election.

Democrats in the Topeka area say they're worried dozens of people may have been directed to the wrong polling places in this week's elections.

Tuesday's elections left Democratic State Rep. Jan Pauls of Hutchinson as the only member of her party from the western half of the state

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says he wants to make it illegal for people to take photographs of completed election ballots.

A former Democratic leader will return to the Kansas House following this week's election, but former State Treasurer Dennis McKinney has failed in his attempt at a legislative comeback.

The GOP appeared poised to maintain its majorities of 32-8 in the Senate and 92-33 in the House following Tuesday's election. Some races remained very close Wednesday.

Kansas voters have approved a change in the state constitution aimed at lowering property taxes on boats.

Republicans have won a Kansas Senate contest that featured two incumbents who were forced to run against each other in northwest Kansas because of political redistricting.

The county's Election Commissioner says a number of problems delayed the counting of votes.

Kansas Republicans have failed to unseat a Democratic state senator ran unsuccessfully for governor two years ago.

A conservative Republican in the Kansas House has won a new, open Senate seat created by political redistricting.

A Kansas state school board member has won re-election over a challenger who has an anti-evolution platform and ties to a Topeka church known for picketing military funerals.

Republican U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins has been re-elected in Kansas' 2nd District.

Freshman U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo has defeated Democratic challenger Robert Tillman to represent the 4th House District in south-central Kansas.

Freshman Republican Rep. Kevin Yoder has won re-election for a second term in the 3rd District congressional race in northeast Kansas.

The conservative Republican incumbent was unopposed in the primary election and faced no Democratic challenger in Tuesday's general election.

Romney had been expected to win easily in Tuesday's election in the GOP-leaning state, where a Democrat hasn't prevailed since President Lyndon Johnson in 1964.

Election officials say voting across Kansas has gone smoothly with few complaints other than long lines at polling places.

Staff members at a southeast Kansas hospital are going room-to-room delivering ballots to patients too ill to make it to their regular polling stations.

Voting booths are now open for business in most of Kansas.

Registered voters in Kansas won't be able to blame the weather for not casting ballots.

Democrats in Republican-leaning Kansas are limited to hoping that they'll slow the GOP-dominated Legislature's shift to the right.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's allies want conservative Republicans to dominate the Legislature after the election so that he'll have a free hand to remake the state.

Republicans looked to repeat their sweep of the four Kansas congressional districts, keeping the House seats in the party's hands for the second straight election cycle.