(Cass & area Counties) – There were no surprises with regard to the County winners of the General Election, Tuesday, at least in Cass, Audubon, Montgomery and Shelby Counties, where the candidates on the ballot ran unopposed.

Voter turnout in Cass County was 55.26% (5,320 ballots cast out of 9,628 registered voters).

For more detailed results, see our separate reports posted Tuesday night, or click HERE

In Adair County, Nathan Baier defeated challenger Doug Davidson for the Adair County Board of Supervisors District 4SE seat. The final tally showed Baier with more than 67% of the vote, 395-191. Voter turnout in Adair County was a little more than 48%, with 3,583 ballots cast, five blank ballots and 175 write-in ballots.

In Adams County there were six people running for five open seats on the non-partisan Adams County Extension County. The winners were Kyle Shipley, Laura Bowman, Clifford Mann, Rex Townsend and Chris Gilbert. Voter turnout was 59%. The same number of voters turned out in Audubon County.

Voters in Guthrie County elected Maggie Armstrong to the Board of Supervisors in District 3. She garnered more than 76% of the vote over her opponent, Tom Flanary. And, Steve Smith won the District 4 seat on the Board of Supervisors in Guthrie County. He defeated Michael Herbert, 674-to 273. And, Dana Minteer won the race with John A. Maschmann for County Attorney, by a vote of 3,252 to 1,566. Officials say there was a 61% voter turnout in Guthrie County.

Voters in Pottawattamie County had to choose from four people to fill three At-Large seats on the County Board of Supervisors during Tuesday’s General Election. The recipients of the most votes include: Susan Miller (17,163); Scott A. Belt (16,307), and Jeff Jorgensen (16,016). Jeff Shudak missed the cut with 12,478 votes. Voter turnout was 45%.

There were no contested races in Tuesday’s General Election in Shelby County, so here’s a link to the complete County-wide results:

ELECTION RESULTS

Voters in Pottawattamie County had to choose from four people to fill three At-Large seats on the County Board of Supervisors during Tuesday’s General Election.

The recipients of the most votes include: Susan Miller (17,163); Scott A. Belt (16,307), and Jeff Jorgensen (16,016). Jeff Shudak missed the cut with 12,478 votes.

The rest of the vote results are found HERE.

Board of Supervisors/District 2: (I) R – Mark O’Brien     726

Board of Superisiors/District 3: R – Wendy Richter     1,002

State Senate/District 9:

D- Tripp Narup     1,212

(I) R – Tom Shipley     3,941*

State Representative/District 18: (I) R – Thomas Jay Moore    4,219

Cass County Treasurer: (I) R – Tracey J. Marshall   3,922

Cass County Recorder: (I) R – Mary Ward     4,366

Cass County Attorney: (I) R – Vanessa Strazdas   3,957

Cass County Auditor (To fill a Vacancy): Kathy Somers     3,978

Unless otherwise mentioned, persons running for: Hospital Trustee (4); Soil & Water Conservation Commission (2); and Ag Extension Council (5)…were elected to their respective seats. See those results HERE

There were no contested seats in any Audubon County position. Here are the County results:

Adams County Extension Council, Non-Partisan (select 5):

Chris Gilbert     908*

Laura Bowman     1,062*

Sue Privett     719

Rex Townsend     916*

Kyle Shipley     1,066*

Clifford Mann     967*

Other results can be found HERE

County Supervisor District 4SE (Vote for 1):

R- Nathan Baier     395*

Doug Davidson (No Party)     191

ALL OTHER COUNTY CANDIDATES ARE RUNNING UNOPPOSED

Those and other results from Adair County can be found HERE

Guthrie County Board of Supervisors/District 1 (Vote for 1)

Jacki Sloss     332

Jerome J.D Kuster     664*

Guthrie County BOS/District 2 (Vote for 1)

Brian Johnson     910

Guthrie County BOS/District 3

Tom Flanary     261

Maggie Armstrong     850*

Guthrie County BOS/District 4 (Vote for 1)

Michael Herbert     273

Steve Smith     674*

Guthrie County Attorney (Vote for 1)

John A. Maschman     1,566

Dana Minteer     3,252*

The remaining election results can be found HERE

The Iowa Secretary of State’s website has released the results of Absentee ballots cast in Cass County. The link can be found HERE. Again these are only Absentee results. There are 12 precincts yet to report in.

(Radio Iowa) – Secretary of State Paul Pate says his office has been trying to debunk the myths and disinformation being posted on social media about voting in Iowa. “We’re reminding them we’re not hooked up to the internet and we remind them that we vote with those paper ballots,” Pate says. “And we’ve got poll workers out there to have eyes on the site at all times to make sure that everything’s on the up and up.” Pate says the vote tabulators are NOT connected to the internet and he’s been telling people there’s no way for the machines to be hacked.

“They’re getting these stories about other states and then they’re concerned that maybe — maybe — Iowa might have some of that,” Pate says, “so we have to spend a lot of extra time reminding them of all we’ve done to protect us.” Pate says county auditors report steady to strong turnout today (Tuesday) and there’s a chance more Iowans will vote in this year’s midterm election compared to 2018.

“We’ve had three straight years of records,” Pate says. “I don’t know if we’ll get another record this year, but I think it’s going to be a strong turnout.” Iowans have 13 hours to vote today (Tuesday) at their local precinct. The polls close at 8 p.m., but if there’s a line of people waiting to vote, Pate says there’s a process to ensure those people will get to cast a ballot.

“The precinct chair will go out at eight o’clock and determine where the end of the line is and they have a process in which they will identify that point, so those folks will be able to vote — even if it takes another half hour for them to get in, they will get to vote,” Pate says. “Now, if someone’s showing up at 8:15 or 8:10, they’re not going to have that opportunity.”

County auditors have received at least 370-thousand early votes via absentee ballot or in-person voting at county election offices. As of this (Tuesday) morning, nearly 13-thousand absentee ballots sent to Iowa voters had not been returned. Absentee ballots must be inside county auditors’ offices by 8 p.m. tonight (Tuesday) to be part of the vote count.  “I’d just remind any of those people who potentially might have an absentee ballot sitting at their house and, if they want to vote, don’t mail it in because it won’t get there to get counted,” Pate says.

Absentee ballots may be returned the county auditor’s office OR surrendered at a local precinct. The voter will be given a regular ballot to cast instead. Iowans have 13 hours to vote today — polls close at 8 p.m. As of the last report, the following is the number of outstanding absentee ballots in each Iowa congressional District:

• 3300 in the first district
• 3000 in the second district
• 4500 in the third district
• 2100 in the fourth district.