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00000179-cdc6-d978-adfd-cfc6d7d40002Coverage of the issues, races and people shaping Kansas elections in 2016, including statewide coverage in partnership with KCUR, Kansas Public Radio, and High Plains Public Radio.

Early Voting For Kansas Primary Election Begins July 13

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Voting in the August 2 primaries begins July 13 when the Sedgwick County Election Office begins mailing out ballots.

Advance voting ballots are available on request. People can apply up until the Friday before Election Day.

Sedgwick County Election Commissioner Tabitha Lehman urges voters to mail them back quickly.

"They have to be back in our office by 7 p.m. on election night," she says. "We recommend, though, with changes in the postal system, that as soon as you get that, you vote it and return it because it does take some time now."

The election office and 15 other sites around the county will be available for in-person early voting during the last two weeks of July.

Data via the Kansas Secretary of State's office

State records show that about 20 to 30 percent of voters in Johnson and Sedgwick Counties voted early in the 2014 primaries.

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Deborah joined the news team at KMUW in September 2014 as a news reporter. She spent more than a dozen years working in news at both public and commercial radio and television stations in Ohio, West Virginia and Detroit, Michigan. Before relocating to Wichita in 2013, Deborah taught news and broadcasting classes at Tarrant County College in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area.