‘Serious consequences’: Company warns Kansas sheriff over election investigation
"I Voted" stickers were available after voters cast their ballots at the Johnson County Election Office in Olathe, Kansas. - Tammy Ljungblad/The Kansas City Star/TNS

The election software company at the center of Johnson County Sheriff Calvin Hayden’s long-running elections investigation hit back on Monday, warning the Kansas sheriff that a baseless investigation results in “serious consequences.”

“I fully recognize that Sheriff Hayden has placed himself and his department in the awkward position of conducting a baseless investigation for the past several years into nonexistent election fraud in Johnson County,” attorney Rick Guinn, representing the company Konnech Inc. and its CEO Eugene Yu, wrote in a Jan. 29 letter to Hayden obtained by The Star.