Morning Digest: How an election conspiracy theorist could lose ... in a GOP primary

_{The Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, and Stephen Wolf, with additional contributions from the Daily Kos Elections team.}

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● Johnson County, KS Sheriff: Republican voters in Kansas' largest county could do something almost unthinkable in the Trump-era GOP: replace an incumbent fond of spreading election conspiracy theories with a challenger who has expressed faith that votes are being counted fairly.

That incumbent is Sheriff Calvin Hayden, who has spent the last three years probing local elections in Johnson County, a populous suburban region outside of Kansas City that has swung sharply to the left in recent years. The Kansas City Star writes that, while Hayden has said little about what he's looking into, he seems focused on an election software company called Konnech.