Topeka ? Two days after the election, the Kansas attorney general’s race is still too close to call.

With all of the state’s 3,369 precincts counted, Republican Phill Kline on Wednesday led Democrat Chris Biggs by 3,032 votes  less than four-tenths of 1 percent.

The outcome remains uncertain because the fate of as many as 15,000 provisional ballots won’t be decided until Friday or Monday.

“This is not going to be over until every vote is counted,” said Cindy Luxem, spokeswoman for the Biggs campaign.

Many  perhaps most  of the votes in question appear to be in counties where majorities voted for Biggs.

The Kansas Secretary of State Office’s latest count shows:

 Johnson County has about 3,400 provisional ballots.

 Sedgwick County has 2,200.

 Shawnee County has 1,000.

 Douglas County has 850.

 Wyandotte County has 400.

Those are the most populous Kansas counties.

In Tuesday’s general election, Biggs won in Sedgwick, Shawnee, Douglas and Wyandotte counties. Kline won in Johnson County.

Provisional ballots are those cast by voters who might not be eligible to vote. They are set aside to be reviewed later by county election officials. If they are approved, they are added to the final tally.

“The biggest majority of provisional ballots are in there because somebody moved and didn’t get around to changing their voter registration,” said Brad Bryant, election commissioner at the Kansas Secretary of State’s Office. “But questions also come up about a person’s age, citizenship and whether they’ve been convicted of a felony.”

Procedures call for election officials in each county reviewing the circumstances behind each of their provisional ballots. Their findings and recommendations are forwarded to their county’s board of canvassers.

The local board upholds or rejects the recommendations and sends the final numbers to the Secretary of State’s Office.

Most of the state’s 105 boards of canvassers meet the Friday after the Tuesday election. Some wait until Monday.

“The law says they have until Monday,” Bryant said.

Douglas County Clerk Patty Jaimes spent much of Wednesday reviewing the county’s provisional ballots. Jaimes said she expected the review to continue much of today, too.

“I don’t have an exact count, but looks like there are about 850,” she said. “Almost all of them involve address changes  their registrations had not been updated. There were a few who’d never registered. I’ve not seen any involving felonies or questions about somebody’s citizenship.”

Generally, Jaimes said, provisional ballots involving address changes within the county are counted; those involving unregistered voters are not.

The Douglas County Board of Canvassers, which is the county commission, meets at 9 a.m. Friday at the Douglas County Courthouse.

State GOP Chairman Mark Parkinson said he was assembling a team of lawyers to monitor the counting of the provisional ballots.

Biggs said he expected Democrats also would have observers watching the provisional ballots being counted.

“The system is working the way it’s supposed to work, and that’s how we want it to work,” said Whitney Watson, spokesman for the Kline campaign.

Watson said he doubted the provisional ballot counting will reverse Kline’s lead.

“Typically, provisional ballots don’t deviate much from the overall vote,” Watson said. “At this point, we’re up by more than 3,000 votes. That might change, but it shouldn’t change much. If we were up by, say, only 500, it’d be different. We’d be worried, but we’re not.”