When Kay County voters arrived at their polling place in late August, they were greeted by an urgent sign asking them to step up and become precinct officials. Election officials in the rural county, home to 44,000 people along the Kansas border, began displaying the notices two years ago when the COVID19 pandemic prompted many elderly poll workers to sit out.

According to a release from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigations, OSBI, the bureau is investigating the death of a 35 year old male in Lincoln County. The Lincoln County Sheriff and Sac N Fox Tribal Police responded to a call at an address just outside of Prague city limits where they found the man dead from a gunshot wound. At this point the OSBI was called in.