Riley County commissioners officially approved Tuesday’s general election results Monday morning.
County Clerk Rich Vargo led the general election canvass and processed 530 provisional ballots. There were 613 provisional ballots that were not accepted for the canvass and 120 provisional ballots that were partially accepted.
Vargo told KMAN 612 rejected ballots were flagged because those voters were not registered, while one provisional ballot was not accepted because the voter lacked a photo I.D.
Vargo said the accepted provisional ballots are not enough to change any of the outcomes in any of the races or questions on Tuesday’s ballot.
Commissioners also approved amendments to the county’s sanitary code.
County Counselor Clancy Holeman told KMAN much of the changes clarify legal verbiage and updates code that was last adjusted in the 1990s.
“Anytime you have a code that is that old, and really written quite some time ago, there’s going to be some changes that will need to be made,” he said. “We had some inconsistent terms in it. Sometimes we referred to the ‘board of health’ when we needed to refer to the ‘administrative agency’ — that kind of thing.”
Holeman said some changes were directed from the Kansas Department of Health & Environment and attempt to specify in greater detail regulations between private and public water systems.
