Election officials at the county and state level are urging you to make sure your voter information is correct with a significant deadline in the process later Tuesday.
Voter registration ends at 5 pm, and Lyon County Election Officer Amie Jones says voters have several options to make sure their information is correct.
Residents can go online to the Kansas Secretary of State’s Office at sos.ks.gov or go directly to kansasvoterinfo.gov/VoterView to check their registration information and correct polling places.
The end of voter registration begins the advance voting process — and as has been the case now for years, the Lyon County Election Office begins with an offsite voter period at the Lyon County Fairgrounds Anderson Building. Offsite voting hours are 10 am to 4 pm Wednesday, 10 am to 6 pm Thursday, 10-4 Friday and 9-1 on Oct. Saturday.
Election Office staffers then go almost straight into the traditional in-person advance voting period from Monday to noon Nov. 2. The last day to apply for a mail ballot is Oct. 27.
This is a lengthy ballot, in part because of the number of state-level and federal-level candidates — but also because several area cities have special ballot questions. Emporia has 3 — one for a 0.25-percent sales tax to fund a new public recreation center and a renovated Lee Beran Rec Center, one to ban high-impact data centers for a decade and another to ban battery energy storage systems. Americus residents are also considering whether to ban data centers. USD 251 North Lyon County has 2 bond questions, one for a new high school in Americus and one for a new athletics complex near the town. Council Grove has a recall vote for Mayor Ryan McDonald. Lebo has a 1-percent sales tax question for city needs and improvements. Osage City has a 0.25-percent sales tax question for USD 420 education facilities. Everybody statewide votes on on the Citizenship Voting Requirement Amendment to the Kansas Constitution, with a proposed change says only US citizens are eligible to vote in Kansas.
