Miller-Meeks Campaign: Scott County Recount 'Unreliable'

The Scott County recount board has now adjourned, despite knowing that a significant discrepancy remains in its tabulation of the absentee ballots received by the Scott County Auditor and included in the certified election results.

When this discrepancy was discovered, the county auditor stated to the recount board that she believed the recount board's number was inaccurate and that the recount board should determine the cause of the discrepancy.

The representative for State Senator Marinnette Miller-Meeks, R-Ottumwa, on the recount board requested that the recount board conduct a full machine recount of the absentee ballots.

"The recount of absentee ballots in Scott County was unreliable," said Miller-Meeks campaign attorney Alan Ostergren.

"The campaign wanted a full machine recount of the absentee ballots to get to the bottom of this discrepancy. Instead, the board adjourned and signed a report that the county auditor, a Democrat, says is not accurate and must be corrected."

Miller-Meeks campaign states that former State Senator Rita Hart's, D-Wheatfield, campaign has taken inconsistent positions on the issue of a numerical discrepancy between the records of a county auditor and the number of ballots reviewed by a recount board.

"The Hart campaign's gamesmanship with this process must stop. They want to disenfranchise Miller-Meeks voters at every opportunity. The Miller-Meeks campaign believes that all lawful votes should be counted in a process with transparency and full accountability. All Iowans should have confidence that the election results reported to the Secretary of State are accurate. The Scott County recount board's examination of absentee ballots did not meet this standard," Ostergren said.

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