NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Reno County commissioners will decide the township clerk for Grove Township at 8:45 a.m. Tuesday, as there was a three-way tie in the election for the post.
"They each got one vote," said Deputy Elections Clerk Jenna Fager. "I couldn't even tell you for sure if they are interested. It's a three-way tie between Jace McKinney, Chris Hanson and Eric Geesling. The board of canvassers decided to draw names out of a hat, so they will just draw the winner."
Those were all write in votes, so the names were provided to Hutch Post spelled as they were by the people writing them in. If the winner was written in by somebody else and does not wish to serve, there is another procedure.
"In Kansas, it's either you get the position, if you decline it, then it's a vacant position," Fager said. "We reach out to the remaining members on the township board, see if they know anybody who is interested and then we have them do a letter of recommendation and then we try and do a letter of interest from the person that they are going to appoint. Then we put all of that documentation into the board of commissioners and then the board of commissioners makes the appointment."
Grove Township is south of Sylvia and north of Turon.