The Montgomery County Clerk's Office is conducting a required audit of last week's general election results.

After every election, Kansas counties must conduct a manual audit of paper ballots to make sure the hand count matches the totals reported by electronic voting tabulators. County Clerk Ami Standridge says this is required by Kansas law.

Standridge says, because the election night totals for several state-wide races were very close, the county will be required to audit additional precincts.

Because the ballots must be counted by hand, she says the audit will likely take most of this week.

The audit will be completed by Friday, when county officials will begin the canvass to certify the election results starting at 9am.