Larry Maxey, left, and Verna Froese, of Lawrence, cast ballots at the Carnegie Building, 200 W. Ninth St., for the primary elections on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016.

9 p.m. update – 92 of 97 precincts:

42nd House District – Republican primary (Douglas County only; 4 of 4 precincts):

Rep. Connie O’Brien, 45 percent; Jim Karleskint, 55 percent

44th House District – Democratic primary, 16 of 16 precincts:

Rep. Barbara Ballard, 82 percent; Steven X. Davis, 18 percent

45th House District – Republican primary, 31 of 31 precincts:

Rep. Tom Sloan, 70 percent; Jeremy Ryan Pierce, 30 percent

Douglas County Commission, 3rd District – Democratic primary, 39 of 39 precincts:

Bassem Chahine, 54 percent; Jim Weaver, 46 percent

Douglas County Commission, 3rd District – Republican primary, 39 of 39 precincts:

Michelle Derusseau, 56 percent; Jim Denney, 44 percent

8:15 p.m. update — 23 of 97 precincts:

42nd House District – Republican primary (Douglas County only):

Rep. Connie O’Brien, 47 percent; Jim Karleskint, 53 percent

44th District – Democratic primary:

Rep. Barbara Ballard, 82 percent; Steven X. Davis, 18 percent

45th House District – Republican primary:

Rep. Tom Sloan, 67 percent; Jeremy Ryan Pierce, 33 percent

Douglas County Commission, 3rd District – Democratic primary:

Bassem Chahine, 53 percent; Jim Weaver, 47 percent

Douglas County Commission 3rd District – Republican primary:

Michelle Derusseau, 54 percent; Jim Denney, 46 percent

7:45 p.m. update — Advance ballots only:

42nd House District – Republican primary (Douglas County only):

Rep. Connie O’Brien, 58 percent; Jim Karleskint, 42 percent

44th House District – Democratic primary:

Rep. Barbara Ballard, 79 percent; Steven X. Davis, 21 percent

45th House District – Republican primary:

Rep. Tom Sloan, 67 percent; Jeremy Ryan Pierce, 33 percent

Douglas County Commission, 3rd District – Republican primary:

Michelle Derusseau, 55 percent; Jim Denney, 45 percent

7:30 p.m. update:

Polls in Kansas closed at 7 p.m. as the state now waits to see whether there will be a significant shift in power at the Kansas Statehouse.

Much of the attention will be in the Kansas House where there are 39 Republican primaries, most of them pitting incumbent allies of Gov. Sam Brownback against moderate GOP challengers who hope to wrest control of the House away from conservatives.

Among them is the 42nd House District that includes parts of Leavenworth and Douglas Counties, including the city of Eudora, where Jim Karleskint, a former school superintendent, is challenging incumbent Rep. Connie O’Brien of Tonganoxie.

But a few incumbent moderates are also facing challenges this year, including Rep. Tom Sloan of Lawrence, who is being challenged for the second election in a row by conservative challenger Jeremy Ryan Pierce.

Meanwhile, there are 16 GOP primaries in the Kansas Senate, although it’s believed moderates have much less of a chance of winning control of that chamber.

Much of the attention will be focused on races in Johnson County where two conservatives, Sen. Jeff Melcher of Leawood and Sen. Greg Smith of Overland Park, face tough challenges.

The election is being conducted under unique circumstances this year after a Shawnee County judge on Friday issued a temporary injunction blocking the state from strictly enforcing its law requiring documentary proof of citizenship in order for voters to register.

The order means that an estimated 17,500 voters statewide — including about 800 in Douglas County — were allowed to cast ballots in all races, not just in federal races as Secretary of State Kris Kobach had initially planned.

Those are voters who registered at motor vehicle offices when renewing their drivers licenses, or by filling out federal mail-in cards before a federal agency agreed in February to change the cards used in Kansas to require citizenship proof.

But those voters are still required to cast provisional ballots, which are set aside on election night and not counted until county Boards of Canvassers meet next week to certify the elections.

That could delay declaring a winner in very close races where those provisional ballots could determine the winner.

Original post, 1:36 p.m.

There were a few hiccups Tuesday morning when polls opened for state legislative and county primaries, but Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew said they had little significance.

The problem was with scanning machines that read the bar codes on the backs of driver’s licenses. Those scanners, which recognize the person’s name and address, connect to electronic poll books that verify that the person is a registered voter and is voting at the correct polling place.

“It took more than several minutes to manually enter the information to get a signature page to pop up for me to sign and the attendant to initial it,” one voter wrote to the Journal-World early Tuesday morning. “This made me a little uncomfortable as it looked like I was trying to use a fake ID! My driver’s license is valid until July 2018, I have been a Kansas resident all my life, have a valid voter registration card, and vote in every election.”

Shew confirmed that some scanners were having difficulty reading the bar codes on some licenses but that it should not interfere with anyone’s ability to cast a ballot. He said the manual process serves as a backup to the electronic scanners, and going through that process does not mean voters have to cast a provisional ballot.

“We have also found if the birth date on the DL does not match the birth date on the voter registration it will not scan, so we do manual searches,” he said. “Scanning the DL is not necessary, just a convenience to move the voter through the process faster.”