(Harlan, Iowa) – Shelby County Auditor/Elections Commission Mark Maxwell, Thursday (today), said Shelby County held the required Post Election Audit on Thursday morning September 15th, with regard to a Special School Bond Election held Sept. 13th.  According to Maxwell, “The Iowa Secretary of States office randomly picks a precinct/vote tabulator to visually inspect all ballots in that precinct or vote tabulator in the instance of combined precincts, Harlan precincts 1 & 2 were chosen.  Harlan Precincts 1 & 2 were combined at the Special election so the audit included one of the 5 vote tabulators used for vote tabulation and was audited to check for accuracy. Also two of the Shelby County precincts involved in this special election were hand counted at this Audit. All machine result matched perfectly with the hand counted audit results.”

Maxwell said also, “It is always a very anxious time for my office when the Post Election Audit takes place. Again at this election no errors in counting by the machines were found.  All the hand count numbers tabulated ( yes and no votes in this instance) at the audit matched perfectly with the machine count tabulated on election day.  The number of ballots in the ballot bag counted at the audit matched the ballot count from the machine and from the Precinct election staff at the polls.”