"Clarkson said she filed a request for a recount after the 2014 election but was rebuffed by the Sedgwick County Election Office. Clarkson said she was told that only candidates could file for a recount of their own races."

It looks like she began trying to get the records during the time frame, but was shut out by local party officials. Big surprise. I'm from KC (Missouri, but we get local Kansas news as much as they get ours). This is pretty standard Kris Kobach shenanigans. On one hand he's removing tons of voters from the rolls to prevent "voter fraud" while simultaneously helping stonewall an audit of votes to detect election fraud.

What's interesting, is that Kobach seems to be trying to avoid having any possibility of fraud investigated on their end, but then they push through voter ID laws because of voter fraud.

Wow, that seems pretty absurd. 5 days and then sealed? Ridiculous.

What is the harm of releasing the paper records? Is there any reasonable argument for such strict measures?