Republican Scott Schwab disagreed with Democrat Brian McClendon on many issues while on the campaign trail, but they were in sync on the necessity of modernizing technology in Kansas' central office for elections and business filings. Schwab won the election and learned the previous occupier of the secretary of state's office, Kris Kobach, had employees plunking away with an AS/400. It's a business computer system viewed as antiquated by Schwab and a dinosaur by McClendon, the software designer, developer and engineer who was co-founder of a company that eventually became Google Earth...
