Close-race audit of Kansas election ballots underway

McClatchy - Wichita Eagle
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Nov 10, 2026
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So all the mail ballots that we received prior
that were postmarked on or before election day
and we received prior to Friday at 7 p.m. have
been tabulated and they're in the totals,
the Friday unofficial totals.
What you're seeing today, Wednesday, the Secretary of State's office
notified us that we're going to have close election audits
on three races, the governor's
race, the Secretary of State's race, and the Attorney General's race.
Post-election audits, you have to audit 10% of your total precincts.
We have 558 precincts in this election,
so it's 56 precincts that we are auditing each race.
That is in addition to our post-election audit that we
do after every primary and every general election.
We have to audit 1% of the precincts for the races that are drawn,
again, by the Secretary of State's office.
So we're just wrapping that up now.
And what's left in front of us this afternoon
are the close election audits.
That will take all afternoon and probably into tomorrow as well.
So that's what all of these ballots are that we have left to do.
