TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A judge has ordered the Kansas Secretary of State’s office to allow state Sen. Julia Lynn to remove her name from November’s ballot so she can care for her ailing sister.
The judge in Shawnee County found Friday that the Olathe Republican had submitted all of the necessary documentation, The Kansas City Star reports.
At issue was technical issues with the initial version of the doctor’s note she submitted attesting to the fact that her sister required continuous care. The note, which she turned in on the Sept. 1 deadline for withdrawing, had the doctor’s name along with a handwritten notation by a nurse in the doctor’s office.
The following day, Lynn was told she needed to obtain a doctor’s note with a handwritten signature. Lynn said in a petition that it was provided a day later but that the Kansas Secretary of State rejected it for arriving a day late.
In the initial denial, the office of Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab said that Lynn had turned in a note signed by a nurse instead of a doctor.
Schwab, was ordered to remove her name from any ballots and notify the Johnson County Republican Party Committee of the vacancy in the election.