Topeka ? Let the voter beware.

That warning comes from Carol Williams, executive director of the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission, and has to do with political ads that run in the final days of the election.

“The ads are really going to get personal,” Williams said. “Hopefully, the public will think for a minute and say, ‘If this was really true, wouldn’t this have been an issue being debated all through the election?'”

During the August primary, one candidate was the victim of a telephone recorded message that said he had been disbarred as an attorney, when the fact was he had never been an attorney, she said.

Such wild accusations are made in the final days of the election campaign with the knowledge they are difficult to refute before voters get to the ballot box, she said. Voters go to the polls Tuesday.

Also, she said, usually on the weekend before the election, advocacy groups, which are separate from the campaigns, start pumping in big dollars to run last-minute ads. “This always becomes the craziest weekend of the election cycle,” she said.