By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Reno County Deputy Elections Officer Jenna Fager says voting is simple, just relax. The poll workers know what they're doing.
"When you go in, you will need to bring a government issued photo ID," Fager said. "You don't need to bring your disposition card that you received from our office or anything like that. You'll just walk up to the person and hand them your driver's license or show it to them and they'll look you up in the poll pad. After that's done, then they'll issue a paper ballot, and you'll go into the poll booth, vote your ballot and then you'll find the box that's at your location and feed your ballot through."
The poll worker will verbally ask you your address. It needs to match the one you gave on your voter registration.
"The machines that you feed your ballots into have memory cards in there," Fager said. "They bring those machines in and then that's when we pull those results."
Fager said there have been some new voters that might be a little surprising.
"This is definitely one for the books," Fager said. "It has been an experience so far, people voting for the first time who are in their eighties that have never voted in their lives are turning up, they're registered and they are voting. It's definitely been an experience. I've never experienced anything like this."
Preliminary results will be available tonight, but results are not official until after the canvass later this month.