Montgomery County conducted its fourth post-election audit on Thursday, November 12th, under a new law designed to monitor and protect election processes. Auditor Stephanie Burke says the audit was successful. Iowa law allows the Secretary of State choose, at random, one precinct in each Iowa county to be audited. County auditors must then supervise a hand count of the ballots from that precinct and compare the results to the voting machine count from election night.

Julie Rubey, Will Lester, Bonnie Miller and Jeanice Lester conduct the audit of ballots

In Montgomery County, the Secretary of State chose Precinct 4, which votes at the Elliott Community Building. 259 ballots were cast on election night and the results matched perfectly to the hand count done on Thursday.

“The hand count shows that our machines are accurately counting ballots,”said Burke. “All voters deserve to have confidence that their vote has been counted properly.”Four precinct election officials, representing the two major political parties, conducted the count under the supervision of Auditor, Stephanie Burke.

As required in the law, the Auditor’s Office notified the county chairs of both of the two major political parties. Questions about the post-election audit and other election matters may be directed to the Montgomery County Auditor’s office at 712-623-5127.