This audit includes information about Ford County’s policies and practices to ensure the security of storage units, ballots, and devices used to tabulate votes in the 2022 general election. It is a follow up to an election security audit that we completed in 2023 of 15 Kansas counties' election...

State law requires that poll book check-ins balance with cast ballot totals when the polls close on election night. The supervising poll worker at the polling site is responsible for ensuring these totals balance. If they don’t, the discrepancy must be explained to the election office in writing....

The STAR bonds program allows local governments to use future sales tax revenue for development or redevelopment projects. Commerce officials expect STAR bond districts to improve local quality of life, but they haven’t defined or measured this. We gathered the data to evaluate districts' affects...