Sedgwick County commissioners took the rare step Thursday of ordering the election office to count ballots that may not have arrived by the legal deadline after the Aug. 3 city council primary. The commissioners, sitting as the county’s canvassing board, rejected a recommendation by the new election commissioner, Angela Caudillo, who recommended tossing the votes out. At issue are 37 ballots that were postmarked on election day. State law says that if those ballots are delivered by the end of the following Friday, they count. And if they don’t arrive by then, they don’t count. But commissioners said there was no way to tell whether the ballots arrived on time or not. Caudillo acknowledged that the election office didn’t check the mail after 8 a.m. Friday.
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