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A 4th recount for an Iowa House seat

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November 23rd, 2022 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – A G-O-P candidate for a seat in the Iowa legislature will seek another recount of her race. Last week, ALL of the ballots in Scott County were fed into a machine for a recount, but the machine kept jamming, so the ballots were recounted by hand on Thursday. A final machine count was done Friday. The result flipped the outcome of the Iowa House District 81 race to Democrat Craig Cooper of Davenport — by a six vote margin. Republican Luana Stoltenberg watched last week’s recount in the Scott County Auditor’s office.

“According to their own office, the amount of ballots that came in were 23,397 ballots and so the number they’re saying today they’re going to reconcile to is 23,362 ballots,” Stoltenberg says. “That does not reconcile to me.” On Election Night, Stoltenberg was shown to be leading by 29 votes, but there were discrepancies in absentee ballot tabulations. The Secretary of State ordered an administrative recount of all ballots and all races in Scott County.

Stoltenberg has until next Monday to file the paperwork to request another recount.