It’s shortly past noon in Kansas, and it appears that voting has slowed to a trickle, at least in parts of Douglas, Johnson and Wyandotte counties, all in the northeastern part of the state.
 

At my polling place in Lawrence, roughly 50 people were in line before the polls opened. Election officers were pleased with that, commenting that only 26 people showed up at that precinct for the August primaries. It was an interesting mix of people: Retirees, college students, soldiers in uniform, nurses and professionals.
 

At the University of Kansas, where a polling place is set up at the Burge Union on campus, only a handful of students were casting ballots before 9 a.m. Poll workers told me that they expected a rush at about 10, when students got out of class.
 

In Johnson County, in suburban Kansas City, advance voting kept lines to a minmum. Annie Aleman, 36, Overland Park, told me that she waited for about 30 minutes to vote at the Ice Midwest rink, where about 100 people were in line.
 

And down the street, at the Hillcrest Christian Church, supervising judge Kathy Wallace said half of the precinct participated in early voting. That made it easy for voters to make it in and out in just a few minutes.
 

Wallace said she’d been up since 3:30 this morning, and was surprised to see so few people making it to the polls.
“Our day isn’t going as fast as we hoped,” she said.
 

But it’s gone flawlessly: “So, so smooth. I kept wondering what we did wrong,” she said.

In Prairie Village, a 20 minute wait early this morning turned into no wait at all, as people crammed the polls before getting to work.

“We thought we would have a busy wait. It’s been a slow trickle since” this morning, said supervisor Jyoti Mukharji.

But in Wyandotte County, election commissioner Bruce Newby showed concern by the empty polling places.

“I honestly thought it would be tremendous (turnout),” he said. “I’ve been out to some of the polls lately, and we’re not having any crowds.”

An early morning rush, coupled with 19.000 early ballots, again meant low turnout during the rest of the day.

A steady stream of people entered the county’s election headquarters asking where their polling places were, or if they could vote at the headquarters. Newby said anyone who had a polling place that changed was notified of that in the mail. He suspects, however, that a lot of people mistook his mailing for junk mail.

Newby said turnout in Wyandotte County could be as high as 80 percent, but if these trends continue, it could be as low as 50 percent.

My day will continue, as I backtrack to Lawrence and then to Topeka before heading to a watch party with KU’s College Democrats.

What have you seen at the polls in Kansas? Anything noteworthy? How’s it feel to vote?