After counting the provisional ballots Friday morning, the results for the Lawrence school district’s local option budget remain the same. Taxpayers will help boost the district’s budget.

The final results were 3,819 votes for the tax increase and 3,758 votes against it. Of the 62 provisional ballots that were counted, yes votes outnumbered no votes, 36 to 26.

The Douglas County Board of Canvassers, who were county commissioners Jere McElhaney and Bob Johnson and Register of Deeds of Kay Pesnell, certified the election results. They considered 75 provisional votes that were called into question mostly because voters changed their addresses or went to the wrong polling place.

“The provisional ballots did not change the outcome. It actually increased the margin,” Johnson said.

The board decided to count 62 of the 75 provisional ballots, mostly following the recommendation of Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew’s office. Of the 13 votes that did not count, eight were cast by people who were not registered to vote in Douglas County. Four voters did not live in the Lawrence school district, and one person was a first-time voter, who failed to show address identification. Shew said that by law the person had until Friday morning to do so, but the person did not.

In Tuesday’s election, the district asked voters for permission to increase the local option budget by 1 percent. District officials said that increase would raise about $679,000 from property taxpayers.

Some critics have said that a property tax increase would be poor timing based on the current economy and that it would hit senior citizens the hardest.

School board members said they hoped to funnel money to staff salaries and, possibly, to other programs, such as WRAP, which places Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center clinical social workers in some schools.

The county board also canvassed the Lecompton City Council and sales tax election results from Tuesday and the results stood.