Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach participates in a ceremony honoring fallen law enforcement officers at the Statehouse, May 3, 2024, in Topeka, Kan. Kobach's office is accusing two Florida residents of forging signatures on petitions to allow the No Labels party to put its candidates on the ballot, and the two also are accused of doing the same in Florida during an effort to get an abortion rights measure on the ballot there. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
Kobach's office said Andrews and Johnson together forged at least 46 signatures on petitions to get the centrist No Labels group recognized as a political party in Kansas, which allows it to put nominees on the November ballot.
Florida officials said Andrews and Johnson submitted a total of 133 invalid petitions in multiple counties during the effort to get the abortion rights measure on the November ballot.
Neither successful petition drive appears to have depended on the signatures the two submitted. In Kansas, No Labels needed more than 20,000, while in Florida, the figure was at least 891,500.
Still, Kobach said that with election fraud, "It doesn't matter how far you run."
"We will drag you back to Kansas and prosecute you," Kobach said in a statement.
No Labels chief strategist Ryan Clancy said Wednesday that the Kansas case involves a former vendor's subcontractor and that vendors are required to provide training for petition circulators and have a third party verify signatures.
"No Labels will fully cooperate with any inquiry," Clancy said in an emailed statement.
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A public defender representing Andrews in Florida did not return a telephone message Wednesday seeking comment. Tom Strigenz, a public defender for Johnson in Nebraska, said she does not have an attorney in Kansas and that she will fight extradition to both Florida and Kansas.
Stringenz couldn't say whether Johnson was in Nebraska to circulate petitions for proposed ballot initiatives there. She has no ties the state, he said.
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