Barton County voters weigh in on presidential preferences

Mar. 20—Statewide results

Republican

Donald J. Trump 70,561

Nikki R. Haley 15,040

None of the names shown 4,888

Ron DeSantis 2,491

Ryan L. Binkley 502

Democrat

Joseph R Biden Jr. 35,031

None of the names shown 4,291

Marianne Williamson 1,435

Dean Phillips 554

Jason Michael Palmer 496

More than 1,000 Barton County residents voted in Tuesday's Presidential Preference Primary, with 1,092 Republican ballots cast and 147 Democratic ballots cast.

The county has 10,016 registered Republicans and 2,220 registered Democrats, according to the County Clerk's Office. That breaks down as a 10.9% voter turnout for Republicans and a 6.62% voter turnout for Democrats.

Each of the ballots, Republican and Democrat, had four names and the option to vote for "None of the names shown."

Here are the unofficial final results for Barton County:

Republican

Donald J. Trump 884

Nikki R. Haley 133

None of the names shown 41

Ron DeSantis 30

Ryan L. Binkley 1

Democrat

Joseph R Biden Jr. 103

None of the names shown 23

Marianne Williamson 12

Dean Phillips 6

Jason Michael Palmer 2

Making it official

The Barton County Commission will sit as a Board of Canvassers at 9 a.m. Tuesday, March 26. Commission chambers and the county clerk's office are located at the former JC Penney building, 1500 Kansas Ave., during courthouse remodeling. All counties are required to conduct canvassing publicly.

The Kansas Secretary of State's office provided additional information. On March 20, county election offices will begin the post-election audit. Each county election office will randomly select 1% of the precincts to be audited for each race. The audit shall be performed manually by the counties and shall review all ballots selected to ensure the hand vote count is identical to the vote count from the tabulators. The audit shall be performed by a sworn election board consisting of bipartisan trained board members.

The final step is taken by a State Board of Canvassers that consists of the Governor, Secretary of State and Attorney General.

What happens to the vote totals?

The Kansas Secretary of State's office notes: Each political party will take the votes cast at the presidential preference primary and turn them into delegate votes at their party convention, which is controlled by the political parties and set forth in their delegate plans.

Delegate selection and binding delegate votes to specific candidates is handled solely by the political parties.

The Republicans have chosen a winner-take-all approach in whichever candidate gets the most votes in the state gets all 39 delegates.

The Democrats have chosen a proportional plan, that the 33 delegate votes are awarded proportional to the number of votes each candidate gets.