County, state see records with votes

Franklin Countians turned out to vote Tuesday in record numbers.

Unofficial results show 11,672 out of the registered 16,974 voters, or 68.76 percent, cast their ballots in the general election.

This year’s voter turnout is slightly more than the 62 percent, or a little more than 11,000 voters, who voted in the 2004 general election.

Of those who voted, 2,544 cast their ballots in advance while 9,128 voted on Election Day.

The Franklin County Commission is scheduled to canvass the election results at 8:30 a.m. Monday at the Franklin County Courthouse, 315 S. Main St. Results are not official until the canvass.

Kansans broke the record of the number of advance voters with more than 415,000 people casting their ballots before Tuesday.

Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh predicted Kansas would have a record turnout Tuesday, and it did; however, the actual number fell just short of his prediction.

Thornburgh said more than 1.3 million voters, or 78 percent, would go to the polls in Kansas, but results show more just than 1.2 million Kansans voted.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.