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Johnson County Election Office Fact Sheet
- The election office is located at 2101 E. Kansas City Road, Olathe, Kansas 66061. Phone: (913) 782-3441. Fax: (913) 791-1753.
- The official Web site is www.jocoelection.org
- Brian D. Newby is the Election Commissioner. He was appointed to that position by Kansas Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh on January 11, 2005 to fill the remainder of the four year term vacated by Connie Schmidt. That term expired in September of 2006. Thornburg appointed Newby to a new four-year term at that time.
- The election office has 16 full-time employees. It oversees 25 permanent voter registration sites, has 1,800 touch-screen voting machines, and will recruit, train and supervise between 1,400 and 1,800 election workers for the primary and general elections in 2008.
- More than 1,900 elected positions exist in 540 voting districts in Johnson County.
- In the 2004 general election, 263,155 Johnson Countians cast ballots. That was out of a total of 348,552 registered voters, a turnout of 75.5%. In all of Kansas, turnout was 71.6% of registered voters.
- Of all votes cast in Johnson County 100,751 were cast in advance—38.3% of total ballots. Only two small counties, Hamilton with 47.4% (1,133 total votes/537 advance votes) and Cheyenne with 40.4% (1,239 total votes/500 advance votes), had a higher percentage of advance voting. Johnson Countians were 89 percent more likely to vote use advance voting than the average Kansan.
- In 2004, Johnson County ranked first among Kansas counties in total registered voters, total votes, and total advanced votes. It ranked 29 in percentage turnout.
- Any registered voter in Johnson County can vote in advance by mail or in-person in the 20 days before a primary or general election. Mail ballots require an application form and must be received in the election office by 7:00pm on election day.