Scott County Post-Election Audit Confirms Results

NEWS RELEASE

Release date: Immediate Release – September 16, 2022

Contact: Kerri Tompkins, Scott County Auditor 563-326-8631 (office)

Scott County Post-Election Audit Confirms Results

DAVENPORT – Scott County Auditor and Commissioner of Elections, Kerri Tompkins, announced that a Post-Election Audit of the ballots cast at the Vote Center of Scott County Princeton Community Center in the recent special election confirmed the results from election night.

Her office conducted the Post-Election Audit on September 15, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. The Office of Iowa Secretary of State selected the Vote Center of Scott County Princeton Community Center for the Post-Election Audit by lot. The Secretary required that each county in Iowa to conduct an audit of the election results from a precinct randomly drawn by the Secretary’s Office.

The Public Measure B was hand counted by a board of three election officials, who did not serve in the Princeton Community Center site, and compared to the machine count of the same ballots. The hand counted results confirmed the vote totals for Public Measure B were the same as the totals counted by machine on election night.

Posted: 
September 16, 2022