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Final results in key races from Tuesday's primary races may still remain unknown for a while, but today we cover the reported results, voting problems and tabulation failures out of Kansas, Missouri, Michigan and Washington, and Ohio, which held the last major U.S. House Special Election of the year before the crucial November midterm elections. Up first:\xa0 Republican Congressman Chris Collins of New York, the first sitting member of Congress to endorse Donald Trump, has been indicted on a massive insider trading scheme. Then: in the extremely close OH-12 special election, Democrat Danny O'Connor trails Republican Troy Balderson by about 1,700 votes out of some 200,000 cast" in a district that, until Tuesday, had been solidly "red" \u2013 albeit with votes cast mostly on 100% unverifiable touch-screen systems. The virtual dead heat contest on Tuesday is leading to growing confidence among Democrats of a "blue wave" this November and, yes, a contradictory prediction of a "RED WAVE" by Trump today. In Michigan, lucky voters were able to vote on hand-marked paper ballots despite electricity outages at numerous precincts. We have results from the closely-watched gubernatorial primaries, and the two separate Democratic races (one normal, one special) to fill the U.S. House seat left vacant by Rep. John Conyers last year, which will lead Rashida Tlaib becoming the first Muslim woman in Congress. Kansas wasted $10 million on new, unverifiable touch-screen voting systems that temporarily failed to work at all on Tuesday, and Kansans face another "too close to call" race in the GOP primary for Governor between current Gov. Jeff Colyer and controversial Trump-endorsed Sec. of State Kris Kobach, who leads, according to the unverifiable touch-screen results, by just 191 votes(!) out of some 300,000 cast. Missouri voters soundly rejected a GOP anti-union measure. And, in a triumph of democracy, St. Louis ousted the longtime, 7-term Democratic prosecutor who failed to bring charges in the 2014 police killing of Ferguson's Michael Brown, instead electing a leader of the Ferguson protests, Wesley Bell. The results of several U.S. House primaries suggest incumbent Republicans previously thought to be in safe "red" districts may not be safe at all.