TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Secretary of State Kris Kobach says only 73 of the 17,600 Kansas voters at the center of legal fights over the state’s proof of citizenship requirements actually cast ballots in the August primary. Kobach provided the figure Thursday after meeting briefly in public with Gov. Sam Brownback and Attorney General Derek Schmidt to certify the election results.

Voting rights advocates have won temporary court rulings in federal and state courts affirming the right to vote for people who registered at motor vehicle offices but never submitted citizenship papers as required by a 2013 state law championed by Kobach.

Election officials in populous counties previously reported only a few such voters.

Also on Thursday, officials reported Kansas saw 23.5 percent of its registered voters cast ballots in its Aug. 2 primary election. Final election results presented Thursday showed that 411,552 voters cast ballots out of nearly 1.75 million registered.

The turnout was slightly below the 24 percent predicted by Secretary Kobach but higher than the 23.2 percent in 2012, the last presidential election year.

Turnout exceeded 50 percent in 14 of the state’s 105 counties. The top figures were 64.8 percent in Wallace County and 60.3 percent in Greeley County.

Five counties saw a turnout of less than 15 percent. The lowest was 12.7 percent in Franklin County.