{"data":{"id":"us-ks/k.s.a.-25-1436","jurisdiction":"us-ks","citation":"K.S.A. 25-1436","heading":"Grounds for contest.","body":"Any contest of election to which K.S.A. 25-1435, and amendments thereto, applies shall be brought on any one or more of the following grounds:\n(a) The person to whom a certificate of election was issued was ineligible to hold such office at the time of the election;\n(b) some voters were deprived of the right of voting for a candidate or on a question submitted, when such voters had the right under the election laws of this state to vote thereon, and such deprival could change the result of the election;\n(c) illegal votes were received or legal votes were rejected which could change the result of the election;\n(d) error or fraud occurred in computing the results of the election which could change the result of the election;\n(e) the person to whom the certificate of election was issued offered or gave, or caused to be offered or given, a bribe to any person charged by law with any election duty, for the purpose of procuring such person's election; or\n(f) any other cause which shows that another was the person to whom the certificate of election for such office should have been issued.","path":["Chapter 25.—ELECTIONS","Article 14.—CONTEST OF ELECTIONS"],"source_url":"https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch25/025_014_0036.html","current_through":"2025 legislative session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:11:29Z","sha256":"2dfa6618c86c2cec43e5d52a6e60fabc32a8cb372eaee74fb72e288b1c0b52c7","source_id":"us-ks","stale":false,"prev":"us-ks/k.s.a.-25-1435","next":"us-ks/k.s.a.-25-1437"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}