By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Reno County canvass for the primary election took place Thursday. The purpose of the canvass is to deal with provisional ballots.
"We present them and make a recommendation on whether or not they should be counted," said Reno County Deputy Elections Clerk Jenna Fager. "We supply the supporting statute that goes along with that to the canvassing board and they tell us whether or not we count it."
The canvassing board took until 2 p.m. Thursday to finish their work.
"For the provisionals, we had 296 cast," Fager said. "We were unable to count 95 of them. 182, we were able to count the entire races on them. We had 19 that were a partial count."
Partial counts are those where someone may have voted a ballot with races on it they weren't supposed to, but some of them were okay, like everyone should have voted the U.S. Senate race, but someone may have gotten the wrong township races or something.
"We actually go in and do an abstract after our results are official," Fager said. "It's all compiled at the state level and then they will do a final canvass on their level."
Fager said there were not enough provisional ballots counted to change the final result in any races locally.