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  IA-02: Three counties use voting machines to assist hand recount, defying Secretary of State opinion
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Last EditedRP  Nov 24, 2020 11:11am
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AuthorZachary Oren Smith
News DateMonday, November 23, 2020 07:30:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionThree county recount boards are defying a recent legal opinion from the Iowa Secretary of State's Office and using a machine to aid the recount of ballots in the ultra-close 2nd District congressional race.

Recount boards in Scott, Johnson and Clinton counties — the three most populous in the district — justified the move, saying it is necessary to ensure that the recount board's three members have time to examine ballots the machines couldn't read for voter intent to see if any were filed for Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks or Democrat Rita Hart but were not tallied accordingly.

Assistant Scott County Attorney Robert Cusack offered a legal opinion for his board writing that using a machine to assist the hand count is consistent with the recount board's charge from Iowa Code to "tabulate all votes" and that a hand recount of all 60,000 votes is not required in light of the confidence in voting machines and the code's own time constraint.
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