The result of the abortion vote was not changed on Sunday.
A GOP anti-abortion activist is responsible for the $120,000 cost.
One person said he wouldn't pay for one of the re-counts.
The $120,000 recount of Kansas' referendum on abortion rights produced the same result as before, leaving its sponsors on the hook for the cost.
A hand recount of votes from eight of the state's 105 counties found that less than 100 of the original votes had been mis-counted.
In a high-turnout referendum, the "no" vote to preserve Kansas' existing abortion rights received a majority of the vote.
A yes vote would have removed the right to an abortion from the state's constitution.
The 165,000-strong margin of victory was not enough to stop the campaign from lobbying for a recount. Since Trump's loss of the presidency in 2020, calls for election recounts have grown in conservative politics.
Kansas state law allows anyone to request a recount if they can afford it. The petitioners don't have to pay if the outcome stays the same.
Republican anti-abortion activist Mark Geitzen stepped in to guarantee the rest of the cost of the recount after the crowdfunder raised around $5,000. The crowdfunder had reached over $50,000 by Monday.
The Kansas Republican Assembly is described by the Kansas City Star as far to the right of the GOP.
Credit cards were left as guarantees by both Geitzen and Leavitt. Who would pay for the cost was not clear.
There were "irregularities" in the vote, according to the data that she saw. She said she has been studying election integrity and fraud.
The Kansas City Star reported that Leavitt had testified to the lawmakers with conspiracy theories about the presidential election.
There were delays in the results of eight of the nine counties. There was a sorting issue that caused the ninth to report late.
Geitzen said that he wouldn't pay for the recount because the officials "screwed up" by not advertising the time and place.
The count continued in the same location, even though nobody was prevented from watching it.
One of the state's largest counties is expected to cost more than $30,000.
"Well it didn't flip the vote, nothing matters, the fact of the matter is that Americans were disenfranchised from their vote by these machines," he said in a TikTok.
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