The Geary County Commission canvased the votes from last Tuesday’s City and School Board elections Monday morning during their regular meeting.

The Commissioners had 21 provisional ballots to consider,”ten of those that the County Clerk (Rebecca Bossemeyer) suggested that we not count, and there were 11 that we did count. Of course those didn’t make any major changes in the election what so ever,” said Commission Chairman Ben Bennett.

Geary County’s official voter turnout was 9.87 percent.

Commissioner Florence Whitebread explained the low voter turnout could have to do with the number of uncontested races,”when you have no body to vote for, except for the people that’s going to automatically go back into office unless you have enough write ins, why vote?”

The only contested races in Geary County were for USD 473 School Board and Junction City Commission.

Bossemeyer did check with other county’s who are also reporting low voter turnout. She shared with the Commission that unofficial results showed turnouts of 12 percent in Jefferson County, 14 percent in both Lyon and Marion Counties. Riley County reported 16 percent and Dickinson County reported 19.7 percent.