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Around 11.7% of registered Lawrence voters cast a ballot in the 2025 city primary election — more than average, as city-level primaries typically end up around 10%.
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Around 1.6% of Lawrence voters have cast their ballots thus far in the 2025 city primary election, and in-person early voting is seeing “a little bit” of an increase, according to County Clerk Jamie Shew.
Three advocacy organizations filed a lawsuit Monday in Douglas County District Court challenging the Kansas Legislature’s attempt to “arbitrarily” reject advance ballots of voters if the mail system fails to deliver them by Election Day.
Douglas County voters who cast their ballots early in person shattered the previous record by more than 5,300 votes, and the top election official expects this to be the second highest turnout the county has seen.
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Douglas County voters have surpassed the previous record number of early in-person ballots cast — by more than 4,000 votes.
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Based on mail delivery times the elections office is seeing, voters who want to cast their vote by advance ballot should have them in the mail “by today,” Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew said Tuesday.
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A few days into advance voting ahead of the Nov. 5 general election, the county’s in-person early voting numbers are “trending higher than any election right now,” according to Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew.
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After more than 200 mail-in ballots from Douglas County voters were not counted in the August primary, local election officials are working to ensure similar problems don’t arise in November.
Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew has had three different deputy clerks since shortly after the 2020 election, when the previous deputy clerk left the job amid unsubstantiated voter fraud claims and conspiracy theories.
This episode of Lawrence Times TV gives a behind-the-scenes look at the Douglas County election headquarters, just hours before they announced the results of Tuesday’s primary election.
