Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach has been ousted from office following a drawn-out election count that stretched days after Tuesday’s midterm elections.
The Associated Press called the race for Democrat Chris Mann on Friday, ending days of uncertainty about the outcome.
By Friday evening, Mann was leading Kobach by approximately 13,000 votes, with the results still awaiting official certification.
The lengthy count continues to raise questions about why voters must wait days to learn the outcome of elections, even in states such as Kansas that predominantly rely on in-person voting.

Republican Kris Kobach appears to have lost Kansas’ attorney general race, with Democrat Chris Mann leading by roughly 12,000 votes.
The remaining ballots are concentrated in deep-blue Johnson County. pic.twitter.com/iihTujaqcU
— VoteHub (@VoteHub) November 4, 2026

Kansas allows mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day to arrive up to three days afterward.
Election officials continued adding votes through Friday, while several close statewide contests remained unresolved.
The state also ordered additional audits in six races, including the contests for governor, attorney general and secretary of state.
Those audits involve manually checking ballots against machine-tabulated results.
Kansas Orders Hand-Count Audits in SIX Razor-Thin Election Races — But Vast Majority of Precincts Will NOT Be Manually Rechecked Under Close-Race Audit
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