Wichita County Commissioners on Nov. 14 formally received the results of the Nov. 4, 2025 constitutional amendment election after elections staff described their hand-count verification process and preliminary findings.

Robin, the county elections official, told the court that hand counts are being conducted across three election-day locations, three early-voting sites and by mail-ballot precincts and that completed counts have “matched 100%” with the electronic tabulated totals for the three state propositions. “Every paper ballot that we have, we tally it up for proposition 3, proposition 7, and proposition 14, and it matches 100% to what we show on here,” Robin said.

Commissioners asked about a small discrepancy of eight between the number of voters who checked in and the number of scanned ballots. Robin said staff found one ballot in the trash and suspect others were carried out by voters who mistakenly thought the ballot was a receipt. She described prior instances in which voters abandoned a ballot mid-process or left with the paper, which explains most minor differences between check-ins and scanned counts.

County leaders and elections staff also discussed the operational impacts of new state requirements that expand manual (hand) counting. Staff said the full-bag hand-count approach is more labor-intensive than previous sampling methods and will increase ballot-board hours and payroll costs. “It is more labor intensive because you're counting everything,” Robin said. Commissioners noted that those legislative choices have budget consequences for county election operations.

The court acknowledged the canvass and moved on to other agenda items. The county noted remaining counts at two locations and said it expected to finish those hand counts the same day.