Kansans who registered to vote when they got their driver’s license may be in for a surprise when they show up to vote Tuesday.
Elections officials said 75 people in Johnson County say they registered to vote between Aug. 25 and Oct. 20 but were not on the rolls when they tried to vote in advance.
Brian Newby, Johnson County election commissioner, said registrations taken at state drivers’ license offices between those dates were sent to the Secretary of State’s office in Topeka. They were then forwarded electronically to county election offices.
Newby said there appeared to be a glitch in getting all those registrations forwarded from Topeka.
He said voters who registered during those dates at drivers’ license offices and are challenged at the polls will be allowed to vote a provisional or challenged ballot. Their names will then be checked with the list kept in Topeka.
If the names match, the vote will count, Newby said.
Ron Thornburgh, Kansas secretary of state, said the problem seem to be centered in three counties_ Johnson, Butler and Shawnee.
