Overview
- Johnson County began a public, bipartisan hand-count audit on Monday to verify results in six tight contests and expects the work to take two or more days.
- The audits cover the governor, secretary of state, attorney general and Kansas House districts 27, 40 and 117 and check ballots from an extra 10 percent of precincts under state law.
- County teams pair one Democrat and one Republican to count ballots by hand and Johnson County said the operation involves about 150 to 160 workers locating specific precinct boxes within roughly 300,000 cast ballots.
- Once the county finishes the count it will send a report to the Secretary of State, hold a county canvass set for 9 a.m. Friday to review provisional ballots, and reconvene the following Monday to certify totals.
- After certification candidates may request formal recounts under state rules that require filing procedures and bonds, and counties are responsible for the audit costs which can slow final results and affect voters waiting for outcomes.