Secretary Schwab Announces Completion of Close-Race Audits
Thursday, November 14, 2024
TOPEKA 鈥 麻豆影院 Scott Schwab announced today the completion of close-race audits for 麻豆影院 Senate District 5 (Wyandotte and Leavenworth counties) and 麻豆影院 House District 49 (Johnson County).
These audits were automatically triggered because the election night results for these races were within a 1% margin. The close-race audit process involves hand counting every ballot in selected precincts and comparing the hand count to the machine-tabulated vote count. In each of these counties, this additional audit was conducted in 10% of the precincts in the selected races.
鈥淭he close-race audits have concluded,鈥 Schwab said. 鈥淚 appreciate these county poll workers for going the extra mile to ensure additional auditing took place for these tightly contested races.鈥
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