It took election workers about an hour Friday to count the 122 ballots that trickled in on and after Tuesday’s election.
“We were excited that we were able to count these ballots," said Sedgwick County Election Commissioner Tabitha Lehman. "We had, I think, 59 that were returned to polling places on Election Day, and that wouldn’t have been something that people had available to them in the past.”
Kansas legislators passed a law earlier this year allowing voters to drop off their mail-in ballots at any polling location on Election Day. The law also says ballots that are post-marked by Election Day and received by the following Friday can be counted.
This election, more than 3200 ballots were cast by mail in Sedgwick County, which Lehman says is on par with the 2013 local election. The tally was added to Tuesday's results, though no races were greatly affected.
County officials will canvass ballots on Monday.
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