Eight candidates for office in Barton County were invited to join the League of Women Voters of Great Bend - Barton County for a forum on Thursday at the Great Bend Senior Center. Two who were unable to attend, Lindsey Krom-Craven and Alicia Straub, sent responses to LWV questions and one joined the meeting via Zoom. Straub told the League she wished she could attend the forum, but she was at the Republican National Convention representing Barton County and Kansas.