Cast your vote early in Sedgwick County at one of 16 sites

Satellite election centers will open Tuesday throughout Sedgwick County, offering residents more opportunities to vote early.

And Sedgwick County’s election commissioner, Tabith Lehman, is encouraging residents to do just that, if they can.

More than 37,000 residents have already mailed in their ballots, and more than 4,300 have voted at the Sedgwick County Historic Courthouse, 510 N. Main, using voting machines and paper ballots.

“Those ballots get counted first,” Lehman said. “We have 60 people in here counting them now.”

The results won’t be released until polls close on election night Nov. 8, she said.

“We are significantly up from where we were in 2012 with in-person voting,” Lehman said. “We are down by comparison in mail-in ballots from elections in 2008 and 2012.”

In 2008 and 2012, more than 40,000 Sedgwick County residents used mail-in ballots.

More Kansas voters are voting earlier than in past elections, she said. “We are seeing a change in behavior.”

Early voting sites

Sedgwick County residents can vote at the Historic Courthouse from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and from 8 a.m. to noon on Nov. 7.

The following locations will be open from noon to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday; noon to 5 p.m. on Wednesday; and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday.

Bel Air City Building, 7651 E. Central Park, Bel Aire

Goddard Pathway Church, 18800 W. Kellogg Drive, Goddard

Grace Presbyterian Church, 5002 E. Douglas, Wichita

Greenwich Road Church of Christ, 1746 S. Greenwich Road, Wichita

Haysville Community Library, 210 Hays Ave., Haysville

Independent Living Center, 3033 W. Second St. North, Wichita

Machinists Building, 3830 S. Meridian,Wichita

Progressive Missionary Baptist Church, 2727 E. 25th St. North, Wichita

Reformation Lutheran, 7601 E. 13th St. North, Wichita

Sedgwick County Zoo Cargill Center, 5555 Zoo Blvd., Wichita

Sharon Baptist Church, 2221 S. Oliver, Wichita

St. Andrew’s Lutheran, 2555 Hyacinth, Wichita

Valley Center Christian Church, 1801 E. Fifth St., Valley Center

Westlink Church of Christ, 10025 W. Central, Wichita

Woodlawn Methodist Church, 431 S. Woodlawn, Derby

This story was originally published October 31, 2016 at 5:25 PM with the headline "Cast your vote early in Sedgwick County at one of 16 sites."