LINCOLN - Omaha businessman Scott Petersen on Tuesday defeated Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen in a Republican primary election, toppling a two-term incumbent by raising questions on the campaign trail about election integrity and ballot security. As of Wednesday morning, Petersen was winning with 55% of the GOP vote to Evnen’s 45%, with nearly all of the expected votes tallied.

Petersen, a former chair of the Douglas County Republican Party, has called for full hand counts of ballots in elections. Evnen pointed to a hand-count audit system already in place in the state, in which a random selection of 10% of election precincts in the state have hand-count audits after elections. Petersen also called for eliminating mail voting for all except those who are disabled, serve in the military or live far away from their polling place.

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