Sixty-five provisional ballots brought the number of ballots people cast in Tuesday’s election up to 8,934, but didn’t change the outcomes of the Lawrence City Commission or Baldwin School Board No. 4 seat primaries.

During the vote canvass this morning, the Douglas County Board of Canvassers approved 65 of the 96 provisional ballots cast in the election. Thirty-one ballots weren’t accepted because people weren’t registered in Douglas County and voter error. Additionally, 22 people didn’t sign the envelope of advance mail ballots.

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“The law is clear that if there is no signature, we can’t accept it,” said County Clerk Jamie Shew.

Low voter turnout made for a quick canvassing. The entire event lasted about two hours and that included Shew and his staff feeding provisional ballots through a ballot scanner.

Douglas County commissioners Bob Johnson and Charles Jones and Cindy Monshizadeh, interim deputy treasurer for the county, served as the canvassers.