Q How are write-in votes tallied? Will we see a list of names that were written in and the numbers of votes they got?
A Write-in votes are tallied from computers or from paper ballots, depending on how the votes were cast.
“We have to record all of those,” said Lyon County Clerk Karen Hartenbower.
The computer will print out the reports with the candidates and the write-ins, then clerk office employees will count the ballots.
“We do not leave until all of the write-ins on paper ballots have been recorded,” she said. “At the canvass on Friday, all those names are available, and the public’s welcome to that.”
Q What is the strangest question you’ve heard from a voter in your years as Lyon County Clerk?
A “Some people on a motorcycle, not this election, but I think the last presidential election, were riding through the country on a motorcycle and they wanted to vote,” Hartenbower said. “So, we let them vote just a presidential ballot.”
The votes did not count because the riders were not Kansas residents.
“They were happy, and they went on,” she said; “they voted.”
Q How many people voted in advance in the presidential election?
A Hartenbower said Monday afternoon, after advance voting ended at noon, that 3,809 Lyon County voters already had cast their ballots. That number is 19.5 percent of all the registered voters in the county.
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