The Kansas Presidential Preference Primary is tomorrow.

 Early voting for the primary ends today at noon. Absentee ballots must be postmarked or returned in person by tomorrow at 7pm. This is a presidential preference priamary because it is an election where the vote totals are given to a political party to allocate delegates to candidates at the national convention. This is not a primary where the voters selected the party candidate.

In Kansas, it is a function of the state political parties to allocate delegates to presidential candidates at each party’s national convention to select each party’s presidential nominee. Such delegates are chosen via caucus or convention by the political parties. This year, the state legislature decided to resurrect the state-run presidential preference primary, which had only been used in Kansas in 1980 and 1992.